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In fairness, New York has to deal with the double whammy of stupider people and worse teachers than either Utah or Idaho.


May 27, 2024

New York State spends three times as much on education for worse results

by Hans Bader
LibertyUnyielding.com


“New data show New York State spends three times more per pupil on K-12 public schools than Utah and Idaho,” yet New York “schools are no better,” notes Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute:

New York’s state and local governments appear to be incredibly bloated. New York State’s population is 10 percent less than Florida’s, yet governments in New York spend 81 percent more, have more than twice as much debt, and have 32 percent more public employees than governments in Florida.

The Empire State’s bloat is clear in public school spending, based on new data from the US Department of Education. The chart below shows K‑12 spending per pupil for fiscal year 2022. The spending in each state is funded by federal, state, and local taxpayers.

New York spent $29,284 per pupil, which was three times the spending in Utah of $9,496 and Idaho of $9,662, and it was almost twice the US average of $15,591.

Are New York schools better than those in Utah and Idaho? The Nation’s Report Card says that grade eight kids in New York score about the same on writing as kids in Utah and Idaho, but they score worse on math, science, and reading.

New York schools: skyscraping costs for so‐​so results.
New York schools perform worse than the national average on math, science, and reading for fourth graders, and significantly worse than the Utah schools on math, science, and reading for fourth graders. Meanwhile, there are states that spend less than the national average per pupil, yet have above average scores for math, science, and reading for fourth graders, such as Iowa, Nebraska, and Virginia, among others.

New York State and the District of Columbia spend more than any other states in K-12 spending per pupil. The District of Columbia also has lower than average scores. The Washington, DC schools have been spending more than any state for years, even as its students lag behind on tests, according to the National Center for Education Statistics:

In 2019 …. eighth graders in D.C. public schools had an average score of 250 out of 500 in the NAEP reading test. That was a lower average than any of the 50 states.

That same year, according to NCES, D.C. public school eight graders had an average score of 269 out of 500 in the NAEP mathematics test. That tied D.C. eighth graders with those in New Mexico and Alabama for the lowest average mathematics score in the nation.

http://libertyunyielding.com/2024/05/27/new-york-state-spends-three-times-as-much-on-education-for-worse-results/


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