Author is implying that spending lots of money on education makes better students when that is absolutely not true. We spend more and more every single year without better results. You can look it up. Meantime, very few places are spending more on police.
Funding for police has slowly and consistently going up. Over the last 4 years, the average % of city funding going to police has gone up from 6.6% of the budget to 7.8%… yet the police keep complaining that they are being underfunded. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html
School funding on the other hand tanked during the last recession and has struggled to recover.https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding
julie.mason1 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Way too true.
gordrogb Premium Member over 4 years ago
Author is implying that spending lots of money on education makes better students when that is absolutely not true. We spend more and more every single year without better results. You can look it up. Meantime, very few places are spending more on police.
Aliquid over 4 years ago
Funding for police has slowly and consistently going up. Over the last 4 years, the average % of city funding going to police has gone up from 6.6% of the budget to 7.8%… yet the police keep complaining that they are being underfunded. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/12/upshot/cities-grew-safer-police-budgets-kept-growing.html
School funding on the other hand tanked during the last recession and has struggled to recover.https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishing-decade-for-school-funding
James Noury Premium Member over 4 years ago
We need the police.
gopher gofer over 4 years ago
maybe the kids can stay out of trouble by becoming police cadets…
washatkc over 4 years ago
Remember when the lottery money was going to be for education….then greedy politicians misdirected the money. Not to the police forth either.
organz 8 months ago
How would a billion dollars fit in a wheel barrow?