Hello Flash,
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Flash
Public school funding per pupil has increased substantially over the years adjusted for inflation. The schools with the higher expenditures are often the poorest performers because they are in low-income inner cities. Certainly performance has not improved in good or poor schools as expenditures have increased.
Students are working more, studying less, arriving at college less prepared, but grade point averages have inflated and college graduation rates are higher. That tells us something about standards.
As far as spending, look at the various state salary data bases. The highest paid state employees are almost always coaches.
Parenting plays a bigger part. People who are born into cross-generational poverty are poorly equipped to raise children with a focus on the success which as eluded them, and they lacked such role models as children themselves. Add to that the fact that they frequently have to work longer hours and are able to spend less time with their kids than the affluent.
The result of that effect logically means that when schools have to take on more of the parenting, that it costs more to do that extra work (which they are unable to do as well as the real thing.)
Also, it is difficult for students to excel when they live in a stressful environment, don't eat as healthy a diet, and are constantly threatened with violence.
Logically, with these considerations, struggling schools should receive extra funding above what the best schools get.
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