The total cost of public education is often underestimated, and identifying exactly where the money is going is a tremendous challenge. The total cost of education includes all costs associated with educating students-operating and non-operating expenditures, the cost of state and regional personnel, and teacher pension costs.
K-12 Education
Noisy Illiteracy
Kids can’t read. I’m not kidding, the latest viral story from The New York Times proves this. The possible cause of the national literacy decline: Is it No Child Left Behind? How about increased classroom screen time? Maybe pandemic-era school closures? Ultimately, the article declined to say that there is a “single reason for the...
May 19, 2026