The North Carolina House Democrats’ Twitter account said the state 'ranks last in the country in K-12 funding.' The party said this claim is based on a study of 2019-20 education budgets from across the nation. But the tweet omits key context.
about state spending on public school systems in the 2019-20 school year with a goal of assessing how"fairly" each state distributes funds across schools.
. This measure was designed to assess how well a state’s additional funds are distributed to school districts with high levels of student poverty. In this category, North Carolina came in 19th.. This category looks at public pre-K to 12th grade funding as a percentage of the state’s gross domestic product. By this measure, North Carolina came in dead last, spending 2.32% of its GDP on education.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, however, says North Carolina’s education system shouldn’t be judged by one group’s measurement of funding effort. The department, which oversees the state’s public schools, isn’t aware of any research identifying the"ideal" percentage of GDP expenditures for education, DPI spokeswoman Blair Rhoades said in an email.in math, reading, writing and science at grades four, eight and 12.
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