‘We Have a Spending Problem,’ Lawmakers Told at House Hearing on Struggling Public Schools
Legislators and policy experts noted that spending and staffing have increased while test scores have dropped. WASHINGTON—Since 1950, the number of students in U.S. public schools has doubled, the number of teachers has more than tripled, and non-instructional staff has spiked by more than 700 percent. And yet, the Heritage Foundation director for the Center