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To: tejek who wrote (495897)	7/24/2009 9:17:55 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576826

Every 25 years? That's not a lot Tim Real per pupil spending, that is a lot. A total nominal dollar doubling might actually be a decrease in real per pupil terms, but a doubling in real per pupil terms of a major part of the government's costs is a very large increase. Which doesn't imply that the schools are getting everything they should have, it says nothing about the outputs from that money, its a statement purely about the inputs. The inputs have been rapidly increasing over the years, if the initial result of spending that money, in terms of facilities, equipment, and employees; or the final output in terms of the quality of education that is received by the students hasn't kept pace; then we could have a problem. But the problem is with the efficiency of the use of the massive resources devoted to education, not a lack of spending, and certainly not a lack of very strong growth in spending. If the problem is low productivity in using the money than perhaps we should focus on ways to increase productivity and reduce waste.