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A 3 page paper reviewing changes in public education spending in the US between 1919 and 2001. Per-student spending in adjusted dollars (to 2001) has increased nearly 16 times over the 1919-20 amount and by a third in the modern era of technology; it would seem that we could expect more impressive results in outcome than we currently enjoy. Many other factors enter into spending today, however, including educating a greater percentage of America's school-age children than in the past and providing bilingual and special education to children who were excluded from public education in decades past. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSeduFundStats.rtf
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for Education Statistics (NCES) maintains records in virtually all areas of educational effort within the United States. Of interest here are the NCES records of educational funding and how
it has changed over the years. Public Education Though the federal government is inextricably involved in public education in the United States, the
concept and the fact traditionally has been under the control of individual states (Public education, 2005). "The Land Ordinance of 1785 established a mechanism for funding public education in
the United States. Until at least the 1840s, however, most schools continued to be privately owned and operated" (Public education, 2005). NCES Table
156 illustrates the differences in funding that have occurred over decades, beginning with the 1919-20 school year. Table 1 illustrates changes in government funding sources during the 20th century
as well as changes in total educational spending per student. Table 1. Changing Funding Responsibilities School Year Government Funding of Total Cost (%) Total Per-Student Spending ($)
Federal State Local Unadjusted Adjusted 1919-20 0.3 16.5 83.2 64 598 1929-30 0.4 16.9 82.7 108 1,129 1939-40 1.8 30.3 68.0 106 1,348 1941-42 1.4 31.4 67.1 110 1,257 1947-48
2.8 38.9 58.3 205 1,567 1957-58 4.0 39.4 56.6 447 2,792 1965-66 7.9 39.1 53.0 654 3,651 1980-81 9.2 47.4 43.4 2,742 5,641 1983-84 6.8 47.8 45.4 3,471 6,077 2000-01
7.3 49.7 43.1 9,197 9,360 2001-02 9,553 9,553 Source: NCES Tables 156 and 166 As Table 1 illustrates, local
funding (as a percentage) has decreased by more than half from the early years of the 20th century to 2000-01, the last year for which figures are available. Simultaneously,
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