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Washington Post Concedes That Government Spending on Education Has Increased, Not Decreased

“The biggest problem plaguing U.S. public schools [is] a lack of resources.”  So claims Robert Pianta, dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, in an op-ed published last week in The Washington Post. In fact, Pianta asserts, government spending on K-12 education actually has declined since the 1980s.  These claims are inaccurate, as federal government data prove.

Public-School Funding Growing for Decades: Shrinking Budgets a Myth

Print this article (.shock/Getty Images) Public-school funding has actually been increasing for decades. The real problem is a lack of incentive for schools to meet students’ needs. Some myths never die. The Biden administration just proposed another $100 billion for school-building upgrades on top of the mostly unspent $193 billion in stimulus funding Congress had already allocated to K–12 education over the past year. Yet major media outlets are still repeating the verifiably false assertion that U.S. public-school budgets have been shrinking for decades. Advertisement Just last week, a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed columnist claimed that “state lawmakers have drastically reduced state funding for public schools over the last generation.”