...(or "could just", to be fair) create opportunties for states and localities to cut spending. (Remember how lotteries were supposed to shower our schools with money?)
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Is the spending including all the private schools? When you have entities that are there to make money and not JUST to make the pupils smarter and ready for the real life, things get more expensive. And don't compare EU and the US. EU is not a country.
aug 10, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The figures are public and private, but are for primary and secondary education (colleges/universities/trade schools exclulded). For grade schools/high schools in the US, private school spending can be disregarded since there are relatively few for-profit schools and they are more than offset...
aug 10, 2025, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
...by private non-profit schools. Admittedly, some of these are very expensive, but those are in turn offset by relatively inexpensive religious (mainly Catholic) schools that spend less or roughly the same per capita than public schools do. And excluding private schools would likely further...
aug 10, 2025, 5:49 pm • 0 0 • view
...reduce (or have no impact) on other countries' per capita expense, since some have more extensive private, non-religious systems that spend more per capita than the US does (e.g. the UK.) I think it is fair to include the EU as an example of non-centralized control since, while the EU is...
aug 10, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
...not a federal state, the tendency over time (and especially since the Maastricht treaty) has been for "comptencies" (their term for "responsibilities") to migrate toward the Union level, or at least be more likely to be shared between the Union and the national governments. This simply hasn't...
aug 10, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
...happened in education, except for more funding transfers from richer members to poorer members, roughly the same as "block grants" in the US system.
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