Students and Spending In America

In 2009 there were over 49 million students in the american public school system. $585 billion dollars were spent by local, state, and federal governments to fund our educational system, but not all states received the same amount.

In Students and Spending, an infographic, we look at the distribution of spending per student and make it easy to see which states get more, and which states are getting less.

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