The Usual Waste Of Money

[Billy_Kinetta]

You can be sure they know all about BLM though.

The public elementary and secondary schools in the District of Columbia spent $30,115 per pupil during the 2016-2017 school year, according to Table 236.75 in the Department of Education's "Digest of Education Statistics."

But only 23% of the eighth graders in the D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading in 2019, according to the department's National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests.

D.C. Public Schools Spend $30K Per Student; Only 23% of 8th Graders Proficient in Reading

 

[toobfreak]

You can be sure they know all about BLM though.

The public elementary and secondary schools in the District of Columbia spent $30,115 per pupil during the 2016-2017 school year, according to Table 236.75 in the Department of Education's "Digest of Education Statistics."

But only 23% of the eighth graders in the D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading in 2019, according to the department's National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests.

D.C. Public Schools Spend $30K Per Student; Only 23% of 8th Graders Proficient in Reading

Obviously, it'll take $120,000 per student per year to get most of the class proficient at reading! Then there is the matter of writing, arithmetic, science and everything else to worry about.