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		jyounker on July 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their l... > We spend more per kid than we ever have. While true in absolute dollars, it doesn't really seem to be true in inflation adjusted dollars. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbUD16t4aaM6rCOmFogjxkVhRpJ...

malandrew on July 17, 2020 [–]

Time scale on that is too short. There is one on this page that goes back to 1970 in 2016 inflation adjusted dollars:

https://edsource.org/2015/states-in-motion-school-finance-na...

Even if it stayed constant per your graph, teachers are competing with growth in administrators for education dollars.

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