This chart, put together by my Cato colleague Andrew Coulson, is a devastating indictment of the government monopoly education establishment. They’ve received huge amounts of money in recent decades, and dramatically expanded the bureaucracy, but student achievement is stagnant.
January 17, 2014 addendum: Chart has been updated to show May 2013 version.
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Part of the excessive cost relates to providing the endless data to support studies like this. Teachers are told what to teach and used as data collection centers.
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A huge portion of the far left establishment, cowards all, went into hiding from military service during the Vietnam war by taking jobs as teachers, and a lot of them stayed on until early retirement after the draft ended.
Is it any wonder why they love to lavish exorbitant funding on public education?
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This chart is no surprise. Last year, during the annual school levy town in our small Idaho town, research showed that despite a declining student population, the top 10 administrators each made more than $100,000. 85% of the levy was allocated for salary increases and administrative costs. It passed, as usual. The teachers union is a well-financed machine.
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“Where is the Money”
A close friend and investor of EjW Inc Magazine from Dubai and lives and have several properties in Bloomfield Hills, Dearborn, Farmington Hills, Rochester Hills, Michigan, invited EjW Inc. Magazine to Dubai and we just returned and while in Dubai, one of the discussion(s): where is all the money for students education the government says the states have? The state of Michigan is totally lost and people in Michigan must be in total denial regarding the government bureaucracy Bu..!!!
EjW Inc. Magazine just checked the various sites as always for accuracy, and this chart appears to be accurate. But, the question(s) remains who’s putting the information onto the charts to say the chart is correct?
They’re several organizations such as CATO but, who’s checking there resources for accuracies?
To be fair, doesn’t a growing student population have a lot to do with it (although the staff per student statistic seems to debunk this theory)?