| This is gonna be fun. He didn't make any claims about the national average, he was making a claim about his district. False. He made a claim about the State: The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student. He said "schools", not "my schools". And I provided a MI-specific figure of $9,666 in my response, reproduced here: [1]. Even for a national number (which you fudged from your own link, heh) False. I copied that from the linked government data [2]: Current expenditures in constant 2007-08 dollars ... School Year 2006-07 ... 10,041 So, what do you have to say now? Dummy. You're a classy guy. [1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/of-all-states-n... [2] http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66 |
If the state average is 9.6k, and his district is suburban, it stands to reason he'd be a fair bit under that at around 7k, esp in michigan where the cities are so f'd up. That would make total sense. Or we could just assume he's talking about something else and lying about it for no reason. Whatever.
Sorry for accusing you of fudging, I misread the stats myself and your attitude didn't generally come across as honest so I was too annoyed to double-check.
Anyways attempted gotcha nitpicking that doesn't change conclusions is way more substantive than actual education policy, I agree that this is awesome. You should work for CNN.