Seven Not-So-Fun Facts About the Costs of Public Education

Mike Antonucci:

I was in the midst of writing this for posting on Income Tax Day when last Monday's tragedy occurred.

For many years we have expressed education expenditures as "per-pupil spending." This is a reasonably good way to frame the numbers, though controversy sometimes arises over what is included and what isn't. The following is a list of different angles on the same spending. All the figures cited are for 2010, courtesy of the National Center of Education Statistics, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

1) Revenues collected by governments for public education in the United States totaled $593.7 billion. About $261.4 billion came from local sources, $258.2 billion from state sources, and $74 billion from federal sources.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 24, 2013 1:46 AM
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