Money can’t buy you literacy – or in the case of Washington’s public schools, a decent education in reading or math.
So concludes the left-leaning Seattle Times, one of many recent media outlets acknowledging the ineffectiveness of government-funded schools to improve students’ academic performance.
“Despite channeling $9 billion more to public education since the state was sued for underfunding schools in 2012, only half of students can read at grade level,” a recent editorial laments. “Even fewer are performing that well in math. Money matters, absolutely, but how it is spent matters more.”
