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by p_eter_p 3756 days ago
I have looked everywhere for a national dollar per student database. Do you know if such a thing exists?
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michaelbuddy 3756 days ago
In the U.S. the census appears to handle that. I'm not any kind of expert on this data, but try this PDF here: http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/13f33pub.pdf PDF Page 26

How I got there: http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa... http://www.census.gov/govs/school/

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dnautics 3755 days ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/23/the-d...

Look at the list of top spending districts, I see two districts with good outcomes (fairfax and Montgomery county) and the rest are urban districts with notoriously bad public schools (plus Hawaii which doesn't have local school districts and has outcomes so bad that pretty much everyone flees to private options, eg Barack Obama).

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