Employee benefits are consuming an increasingly larger share of the education-funding pie in every state.

If school-choice states had maintained benefits at 2002 per-pupil levels, they would now be spending an estimated $17.8 billion less. Total spending on choice is only about $2.6 billion annually — six times less than the increase in benefits expenditures. https://t.co/nO8kQzVbGb

— Aaron Smith (@AaronGarthSmith) September 21, 2021