American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free » Joel TurtelThe Land of the Free presents articles and news about the world and the United States from a conservative, libertarian and classical liberal point of view.Public-School Excuse 1 Give Us More Money!- September 2, 2007 If more money meant better education for our kids, our public schools should have vastly improved over the last 75 years. Yet the reverse is true. In dollars adjusted for inflation, public schools spent about $876 per year for elementary and secondary school students in 1930, when student literacy rates were close to 90 percent. In contrast, in 2003 public schools spent about $7500 per student, while literacy rates fell to the 50-70 percent level in many public schools.http://www.thelandofthefree.net/conservativeopinion/2007/09/02/public-school-excuse-1-give... |