I would disagree...in Dupage County, IL (just west of Cook County...where Chicago is), we spend a lot on education and have some of the best schools in the country. I do agree that unions are the biggest impediment to improving schools.
-----Original Message----- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 5:32 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Piling On: Economists Call Obama On Universal Backing Claim Spending more almost never translates into better results. Look at the Los Angeles or Atlanta school systems, which have huge per pupil expenditures and horrible test scores and dropout rates. They also both have bloated bureaucracies and poor programs for dealing with problem children. Quality of education has much more to do with quality of teachers, location and parent involvement than it does with spending. And the better teachers are not usually the highest paid because the unions will never agreed to merit based pay. On side note, spending per prisoner exceeds spending per pupil in almost every state. Which for some reason bothers me to no end. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Knowing what each country spends per student (either in straight up > dollars or a % of GDP) is all well and good, but what I was referring > to was how effective those dollars are. 'What is the return on > investment?', if you will The article I read (or show I saw) addressed > that question. Still looking BTW. > > We can spend $100,000 per year for each child, but if the schools > graduate idiots than I say that is money wasted. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324737 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
