And the math/reading scores BEFORE 2019 were awful!-----School Spending Up, Test Scores Down, by Terence P. Jeffrey | Creators Syndicate

School Spending Up, Test Scores Down, by Terence P. Jeffrey | Creators Syndicate

• Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012.
• This is despite the fact that American taxpayers invested more money per pupil in the nation's public schools in each of the last two fiscal years than they did in 2012.
  

Bottom line: Increased spending on public education did not pay off.
In fiscal 2012, according to the Census Bureau, the United States spent $10,608 per pupil in its public elementary and secondary schools. 

In fiscal 2020, in the 35 states and the District of Columbia that have so far reported their totals to the Census, the per pupil spending was $14,455...Read all!