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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WaPo article describes education costing $4B for equity and leaving no child left behind.

Unmitigated progressive disaster.  But at least they feel good about themselves for the progress. They never have to figure out how to pay for anything as long as it is someone else's money and they can raise taxes. Who needs roads and infrastructure? [/quote]

Who needs schools? [/quote]

Oh please, as if good education = $$$$.

Why can students in Sweden, Japan, China, and Singapore mop the floor with American students while they spend many fold less per student?

The state mandated a whole bunch of unfunded progressive mumbo jumbo for education that is costing billions of dollars which means it will need to cut elsewhere since progressive initiatives have hit the wall of reality in that there are only a limited number of dollars available.

How many billions of dollars have been dumped into schools in Baltimore yet performance remains abysmal?  [/quote]

Just googling a bit, Singapore seemed tobe spending about 16-18% of GDP on education over the past number of years.  That has a downward trend, but maybe that"s because of increasing GDP or lower student-age population, rather than cuts on a per-student basis.

What's the % for the US?  Does it adjust well for student-age population so that per-student spending on a PPP basis is roughly equivalent to Singapore, Japan and Sweeden?  (China's not a good comparison for a host of reasons.)

Do those countries maintain large high school sports program budgets within their education spending?  Do they bear similar cost to the US when it comes to socioeconomic & cutural differentiation of their populations?  What socioeconomic level in society is enjoyed by those there in the teaching profession?  How does that compare, here?

There's plenty that could make education more efficient, just as with any large enterprise.  There's plenty that super-progressives end up mandating that is not even well-suited to societal goals when considering likely effect, much less efficient.  I'm not sure arguing that effective education in the US would come from top-line cuts makes any sense, though, when comparing apples to apples with other countries.

Come back to us about B'more getting high funding with lower output when they aren't dealing with great impediment on the input side...[/quote]

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