Political Stances on Public Education Spending

“But sometimes, the public schools arent the right place. Sometimes theyre failing us. And we spend $800 billion a year on K-12 education across this country. We do not have a spending problem. We dont. And in our urban centers, which are performing the worst, generally we spend even more. In the city of Newark, New Jersey, in my home state, we spent $36,000 a pupil for public education that is failing them. They could go to just about any private school in this country for that amount of money.”

“Socialism = spending billions of dollars on schools and not a single child can do basic math”

“We will shut down the Department of Education, without apology. Much better uses for that money: put that money back into parents pockets where it belongs. Heres the hard TRUTH: there is an *inverse correlation* between how much $$ a public school spends per student & the actual outcomes that school achieves for its students. Solution: parents who move their kids to schools spending less $$ per student while achieving better outcomes ought to be able to keep half the money. Example: A student at a failing school in NYC that receives $40k per student, who transfers to a school 15 miles away that receives $20k per student, gets to keep half the difference, $10k. Do the math. The left calls math racist. I call it a $250k+ graduation gift for kids. You pick which one is better.”