politicalprof:micdotcom:This is what’s wrong with our spending priorities Our country is starting t
politicalprof:micdotcom:This is what’s wrong with our spending priorities Our country is starting to value prisons more than it values schools.That’s the takeaway from a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), which examined state general fund spending between 1986 and 2013. When they compared education spending with corrections spending, the CBPP found that state spending on corrections has increased by 141% in the last three decades, while spending on grades K-12 had only increased by 69%, just under half as much. Spending on higher education rose 5.6% over the same period.We’re funding the pipeline the wrong way.Politicalprof: actually, the ratio is probably much worse than this. Most states count pension funding for educators as “education” spending, even though none of it goes to the classroom. (This is true for corrections officers’ pensions on the “prison” side of the budget but there are a lot less corrections officers than teachers.) So a lot of the “increase” in education funding is about retirement, not students. -- source link
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