In an op-ed in the Washington Times, Paul E. Peterson takes a close look at what the American public knows about school spending based on data from the 2015 EdNext poll. He writes: "In the school districts where our respondents lived, the expenditures per pupil came to $12,440 per pupil in the last year, 2012 for which information is available. But when we asked respondents to estimate per-pupil expenditures in their local school district, they guessed, on average, just $6,307, little more than half actual spending levels. In other words, the public is badly misinformed..."
In an op-ed in the Washington Times, Paul E. Peterson takes a close look at what the American public knows about school spending based on data from the 2015 EdNext poll. He writes: "In the school districts where our respondents lived, the expenditures per pupil came to $12,440 per pupil in 2012, the last year for which information is available. But when we asked respondents to estimate per-pupil expenditures in their local school district, they guessed, on average, just $6,307, little more than half actual spending levels. In other words, the public is badly misinformed..."