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Figuring out how much Congress really thinks education should cost
Beth Pratt has a provocative suggestion for determining how much Congress really believes should be spent on each kid's education, based on a kind of theory of revealed preferences: 1 Do you have children? (If no, end of questionnaire.) 2 Are any of your children currently school age (K-12)? If not and they are older, please answer by referring to when they were school age and translate any dollar amounts into 2011 dollars. If not and they are younger, please answer according to the plans you have for their schooling, again using 2011 dollars. 3 Do your children attend public school, private school, or homeschool? 4 If public school, what is the per-pupil spending, including private fundraising, for students at that school? 5 If private school, what is the annual tuition (sticker price)? 6 If homeschool, what is the total annual cost of materials, enrichment activities, and instruction (instruction meaning the cost of private tutors and/or the lost wages of the parent who stays home and teaches)? That is the questionnaire. Every member of Congress answers it, and then we total up the answers to questions 4-6 and divide by number of Yes responses to question 1. In which I solve the problem of how much funding schools should have...
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