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    [OC] Education in USA is not uniform: DC spends $37,686 per student for Public K-12. Check out your state!!
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    [OC] Education in USA is not uniform: DC spends $37,686 per student for Public K-12. Check out your state!!

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    1. spottie_ottie on

      I’d like to but I can’t see wtf it says because its small, squished, and low res

    2. material_mailbox on

      It’d probably more interesting to exclude DC. It only makes sense to compare DC vs. other cities.

    4. DigitalArbitrage on

      This would be far more useful if it showed spending adjusted for the cost of living. (Also on a more granular level like county. Within a single state, cities can have a high cost of living and rural areas can have a low cost of living.)

      New York and DC probably look high because they are mostly urban and are high cost of living areas.

    6. vtTownie on

      This might be insane but who would have thought it costs more to build, pay teachers, etc in more expensive places

    7. flyingtiger188 on

      Well done NC. Outspending Utah, Idaho and Oklahoma is an impressive feat. Many Oklahoma schools had to go to 4 day weeks because they couldn’t afford to keep them running 5 days a week.

    8. frozenpreacher on

      Its interesting! It might be fun to correlate that to effective education (No idea how that could be tracked).

      I think schools in my area got about $5500 per pupil. Homeschool kids were allotted $1400. On average, it appeared that less money = better results.

      Of Course Mark Twain’s “Lies, damn lies , & statistics…” comes to mind.

    9. kittydreadful on

      Utah and Idaho are able to spend less because they have so many SAHM that help in the classroom. This would be more interesting to have literacy rates or graduation rates as well.

      Spending doesn’t prove/show anything. You need a possible correlation to something else.

    10. Gilchester on

      Ooh, small error, there are actually 50 states in America (j/k I know it’s counting DC as the 51st. Would that it were so)

      More seriously, not sure I agree with the coloring; too much is red. And I don’t know if there is an industry accepted standard of what is “enough” (which is where imo the green cutoff should theoretically be).

    11. mr_ji on

      1. This exact thing was posted a couple of days ago. Literally same info, same map.

      2. Unless you can correlate that the money spent is leading to better outcomes (spoiler: it isn’t), the color gradient is backwards. Throwing money at something with no benefit is a bad thing.

    12. Joseph20102011 on

      It’s time to impose state-wide or federal-wide funding for public school education if equity is the goal.

    14. stupidugly1889 on

      Dc really is like the capital from hunger games. Look at incomes there compared to everywhere else

    15. MaloortCloud on

      Image compressed into oblivion âś…

      Text too small to read âś…

      Impossible to interpret if you’re colorblind âś…

      If you throw in interpreting the size of irregular shapes and an x axis that doesn’t start at zero (you might already have that, it’s impossible to tell) you’ll hit the garbage visualization BINGO.

    16. icandothis24 on

      Goes to show money doesn’t equal quality schools. Washington D.C., in particular, doesn’t have good public schools. Ask anyone who’s lived there lol

    17. turb0_encapsulator on

      I want to see this adjusted for cost of living, and then I want to see how the adjusted cost compares to outcomes.

    18. wtfffreddit on

      I’d be more interested in distribution within the state. What kind of students is that money being spent on?

    19. SalvatoreEggplant on

      I’m actually surprised there aren’t bigger disparities in spending. Excluding NY and DC. I feel like property taxes are really high in NJ, and most goes to schools (and county taxes to law enforcement and courts), but spending per student isn’t all that much higher than in the low states.

    20. yeah87 on

      Interestingly enough, there is very little correlation between school funding and student outcomes. Student outcomes *are* tightly correlated to parent’s socioeconomic status.

    21. SouthImpression3577 on

      You should color them within a standard deviation with the median being a neutral color. You make it look like the entire country is underfunded.

    23. Sleep_adict on

      And by school district the difference is massive… metro Atlanta counties spend a fortune and rural counties spend nothing ( due to tax disparities) despite the massive amounts of welfare sent to rural areas

    27. bigcliff10 on

      Alaska has to be inflated due to the cost of rural education, not a chance they are spending that much money, per student, on purpose.

    32. JohnBertilakShade on

      No wonder they’re trying to gut education lol, they need more stupid voters.

    33. DammatBeevis666 on

      Can I get a correlation map between spending per student and 2024 Trump vote percentage? I’m guessing there’s a positive correlation.

    36. GebeTheArrow on

      Don’t kid yourself. Look at the test scores and drop out rates in CA. More funding certainly doesn’t mean better outcomes.

    37. WotTheHellDamnGuy on

      Needs to be much more, significantly higher prep school tuition doesn’t even fully cover just a Day School’s operational budget for a year.

    38. El_dorado_au on

      /r/peopleliveincities and therefore education is more expensive in states with high cost of living cities.

    39. wesblog on

      It is crazy that DC public schools spend more than the typical private school education per student.