Too many white people in top national security positions

[Benton]

(05-15-2016, 11:15 AM)bfine32 Wrote: If I'm reading your article correctly; it's kind of going against what you are suggesting; as it indicates funding is not the issue:

"Only 4 percent of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient or better in math and only 7 percent in reading. This is despite the fact that in the 2011-2012 school year—the latest for which the Department of Education has reported the financial data—the Detroit public schools had “total expenditures” of $18,361 per student and “current expenditures” of $13,330 per student."

Pps doesn't mean that all the money goes directly to the teachers or supplies. It varies state to state, but pps is about 50% on the student. The other is debt service, admin, transport. Schools in more metro areas tend to have a higher pps because it costs more to live or operate there. And typically teachers in note metro kocations make more because cost of living is higher, not because they're better teachers.