Next Time Someone Bemoans the Education Budget, Consider Showing Them This

The Blaze reports:

There are often cries to increase education funding in the United States, complete with warnings on how terrible the lives of the children will be if taxpayers don’t turn over more of their income. But an international survey released Tuesday revealed that the United States already spends far more than any other developed nation on its students’ education each year, though U.S. students trail far behind their international rivals on standardized tests. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – which groups the world’s most developed countries – wrote in its annual education report that the United States spent more than $11,000 per elementary student in 2010 and more than $12,000 per high school student. When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system – more than any other nation covered in the report.