Oh, almost $34k a year is expensive, but $17k a year - WHAT A BARGAIN! On a related note, the anti-voucher crowd throws around $6k as the "cash equivalent" value that each voucher would bestow to school age children for their education every year. Is that a Milton Friedman heyday number (1980's) that never got updated? Because it would be consistent with the component-wise breakdown of the change in the consumer price index for that particular commodity over said time period.
Thanks for the chart.
Obviously the American Petroleum institute did not look at NYC rents when they compiled this list.
Most of the staggering growth in per pupil average spending isn't education for regular students, it is "special ed" - and specifically the "special ed" that encompasses medical care and personal nurses for the most severely broken kids. Never mind $34,000 for these pregnant girls, think $50,000 a year as a floor. The DC public schools spend nearly 25% of their budget on crackbabies in what amount to private contract nursing homes at an average of $70,000 a body a year. These kids aren't going to take advantage of vouchers.
$6,000 yearly for a regular student is on the low end in most places, certainly a place with the cost of living of NYC, but not by so much as you'd think.