School spending up, test scores down

Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012. This is despite the fact that American taxpayers invested more money per pupil in the nation’s public schools in each of the last two fiscal years than they did in 2012. Bottom line: Increased spending on public education did not pay off. In fiscal 2012,…