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Ethan Schmick – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
Growth in per pupil education spending in the United States was mostly flat until 1918, after which it increased by almost 100 percent in a brief six-year period. This is the fastest documented increase in per pupil education spending in U.S. history. Using newly digitized biennial data on 386 of the largest urban school systems in the United…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Expenditure per Student, Educational History, United States History