A Feast for the Census
The U.S. Census Bureau finally released its annual report on education spending, titled Public Education Finances: 2007. For you this means a few days of newspaper headlines ranging somewhere between this one and this one.
For me it means several weeks of steady work updating EIA’s Public School District Enrollment and Spending tables for some 14,000 districts. So while I hammer away on that project, talk among yourselves about the takeaway statistic from the report: Public school spending rose 5.8% in 2007.
