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Posted inColumnists, Economic Stimulus, Education by the Numbers, Elementary to High School, Jill Barshay

School spending per student drops for a third year in a row

Turn the education spending clock back to 2007. This story also appeared in U.S. News & World Report Per-pupil spending in the nation’s public schools fell for the third straight year in 2012-13*, according to the most recent federal financial data, which was released on January 27, 2016. In that school year, U.S. public schools spent only […]