State per pupil expenditures: How does your state rank?

[cali]

Vermont ranks number 1. Utah comes in last. Vermont also has the smallest students to teachers ratio.

http://www.edweek.org/rc/articles/2009/01/21/sow0121.h27.html

[ccharles000]

1. north carolina 44

[DrDan]

2. 6 of the bottom 9 are in the west

who would of thought. . . . .

[Kalyke]

15. That it wasn't the South?

Because, we know, from the comments on this board, that Southerners are stupid and uneducated.


:eyes:

[DrDan]

25. exactly . . . and I say that being from Florida - #41

and I am surprised to be that high.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Shitstain Nevada reporting: 49th with $7,213 per student.

No wonder they have to send notices to parents in the good parts of town begging for donations of fucking paper towels! And this was ten years ago. I can only guess what it's like for the kids now. :puke:

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[Systematic Chaos]

5. Spamming these boards = instant ban

Stop wasting your time and ours, kthxbai.

You really want to help people you get your post count up and start a serious discussion. Otherwise, enjoy your very short stay.

[FSogol]

6. Isn't this a little misleading? Is this an actual $ per pupil or does it include

administration and facility maintenance numbers? For example DC spends a lot per student, but they have a massive administration (that is largely nonfunctional) and drives up the cost.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Why are the administrative costs in DC so high?

:shrug:

[FSogol]

11. Inefficient and sometimess corrupt adminstration. The new Mayor and his

director, Michele Rhee are working on addressing the problem.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. NY is 4th. Those numbers are deceptive because schools in NY don't have the same expenditure.

The individuals districts vary depending upon how affluent a community is.

[last_texas_dem]

9. 48th- woo hoo!

Not particularly surprised at that; TX seems to manage that ranking on a variety of lists. Although instead of being ahead of, say, LA, AR, and MS (which is pretty typical), we're ahead of a few western states this time.

[jody]

10. I've looked at test data for all the schools in my state and the correlation between per student

expenditures and test performance are in the .02 to .03 range.

Surrogate measures for poverty have a correlation of about .65 with test performance.

[Winterblues]

12. I am surprised Washington and California are so low

Washington especially. I read an article not long ago about the top rated high schools in America and Bellevue Washington had three in the top ten...

[Fresh_Start]

19. California passed prop 13 in the 70s

because its a huge state and has some extremely wealthy communities, it has some very highly rated schools...but for the most part the schools are dealing with high poverty, large non-English speaking populations, .... its not a formula for success

[slackmaster]

22. California should cut its prison population by about 1/3, cut prison staff, close prisons

And spend the money on schools instead.

[Fresh_Start]

24. I wouldn't have a problem with that nt

nt

[Catshrink]

13. 50th! Arizona is the bottom of the heap.

We were 49th, but our Legislature didn't think that was good enough and wanted to be 50th. Now members have been quoted as saying, "Education doesn't create jobs" and "There's no correlation between class size and quality." We get what we pay for here in The Valley of the Dumb.

[MadBadger]

14. Jersey is 4, Wisconsin is 18

[guitar man]

16. 42

Oklahoma...how depressing
:(

[sutz12]

17. Pretty rank.....Washington 45th

I would have thought and hoped it would be higher. :shrug:

[XemaSab]

18. #47

:banghead:

Right in between Tennessee and Texas. x(

[Lyric]

20. 15th--however, unlike a lot of other states, WV actually spends more

of its money on the STUDENTS, rather than its administrators. If we adjusted these numbers to subtract inflated administrative costs, we'd be a lot higher.

I can complain about a lot of things in this state, but WV public schools are very good, considering how impoverished the state itself is and how low our property values (and thus, property tax revenues) are. There are some extremely poor counties with crappy schools, of course, but overall the school quality is a lot higher than other, similarly-impoverished states have.

[slackmaster]

21. California ranks #47 in spite of being #10 in per capita taxes and #1 in tax rates on working people

We spend way too much money on prisons.

[bullwinkle428]

23. No real "red state/blue state" dichotomy, it would appear -

you've got Wyoming, Alaska (go figure), and Montana in the top 10, while Illinois, Washington, and California rank closer to the bottom.

[kwassa]

26. Maryland is #23, yet is the highest ranked public school system in the country.

Interesting.

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/pressrelease_details/2009_01_07

Education Week, the nation’s leading education newspaper, looked at data in six critical categories over the past two years, and found that Maryland’s state education system is at the very top of national rankings.

Maryland placed at the top of the list in Education Week’s tally, just ahead of Massachusetts. Other high-scoring systems include New York and Virginia.

Maryland’s ranking is based on student performance and State education policies that reflect more than a decade of work on a preK-12 curriculum; state accountability and standards; and work on school readiness, high school reform, and preparation for college and the workplace.

“School reform doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a long-term commitment to high standards and collaboration, always keeping in mind the students and the families we serve,” said State Superintendent of Schools Nancy S. Grasmick. “The ‘Quality Counts’ report reaffirms Maryland’s status as one of the nation’s most desirable places to live, work, and raise a family.”

Maryland has had a history of success in Education Week’s annual review of state education systems; it ranked third in the 2008 “Quality Counts” report. But this is the first time Maryland has ranked first overall.