N.Y. Can't Teach Kids To Read on $30,000 a Year

N.Y. Can't Teach Kids To Read on $30,000 a Year

• Inflation-adjusted revenue per student in public schools is up 68 percent in the Empire State—and 24 percent nationally—over the past two decades. 
• Time for School Choice.

"One of the perennial defenses of mediocre public K-12 schools is that they just don't have enough money to work with. 

Liberal groups like The Center for American Progress routinely put out videos like this one denouncing the "underfunding of K-12 schools" that call for more and more money to be spent.
...Yet New York's public schools are still as terrible as the Mets, the Jets, and the Giants, with only a third or fewer of students up to grade level in eighth grade reading and math, according to their scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)...Read all!