Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Assessment of Educational Progress

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Source: Andrew J. Coulson at Cato@Liberty , compiled from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data. (The vertical scale on left is inflation-adjusted dollars per student in public elementary and secondary schools.)


[I.e., the government's own graph]



Distribution of sources of revenue for public elementary and secondary schools in 1929-30: 0.4% federal, 16.9% state, 82.7% local.

Distribution of sources of revenue for public elementary and secondary schools in 2005-06: 9.1% federal, 46.5% state, 44.4% local.

[How many more generations are we going to sacrifice before we return the job of educations to parents where it belongs through vouchers?]

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