claim: americans, in the last 30 years, "have more than doubled the amount of money we are spending per child (on education) … and the results have gotten worse, not better."
author: michelle rhee
evidence_1: effects of the budget control act sequester on defense spending ... sbc white  paper on education in america: it's not about the money ... achievement… in  this country in the last 30 years, we have more than doubled the amount of  money we are spending per child… and the results have gotten worse, not better.
evidence_2: mar 25, 2015 ... spending per student has more than doubled since the 1970s. but the news isn't  all ... so why is american education so expensive? partly because ... court cases  have forced states to divide the money more equally. but often that just ... that  number factors in spending by everyone, not just governments.
evidence_3: jun 15, 2011 ... who better to lead an educational revolution than joel klein, the prosecutor ...  but in his eight years as chancellor of new york city's school ... though we have  doubled our spending (in inflation-adjusted dollars) on k–12 public education. ...  their children, who are in private schools or elite public schools, ...
evidence_4: jan 25, 2016 ... most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary  schools ... worse, some states are still cutting eight years after the recession took  hold. ... as common sense suggests, money matters for educational outcomes. ...  steep state-level k-12 spending cuts have serious consequences.
evidence_5: "by 2020, america will once again have the highest proportion of college ... as a  result, a college education remains the best investment a student can make in his  or ... four-year colleges has more than doubled, even after adjusting for inflation.  ... only about 30 percent of the cost of a four-year public college education—the ...