Academic Issues
US Education Statistics and Data Trends public school spending, educational attainment, and more
In 2022, 36.3% of 4th graders were proficient in math.
In 2022, proficiency in math for eighth graders was 26.5%.
Proficiency in reading in 8th grade was 30.8%.
In fiscal year 2020, governments spent a combined total of;
$1.3 trillion on education.
That's $4,010 per person.
I don't think that money went to benefit your kids.
Find any district in the US and learn what their responsibilities and regulations are.
Learn about school districts and the leaderships and what their duties and responsibilities are.
A public school district is a geographical unit for the local administration of elementary or
secondary schools. It is a special-purpose government entity that can be administered independently
or be dependent on the local government, such as a city or county.
The Federal Role in Education
Education is primarily a State and local responsibility in the United States. It is States and
communities, as well as public and private organizations of all kinds, that establish schools
and colleges, develop curricula, and determine requirements for enrollment and graduation.
The structure of education finance in America reflects this predominant State and local role.
Of an estimated $1.15 trillion being spent nationwide on education at all levels for school year
2012-2013, a substantial majority will come from State, local, and private sources. This is
especially true at the elementary and secondary level, where about 92 percent of the funds will
come from non-Federal sources.
The mission of Discovery Institute’s American Center for Transforming Education is to work with state
government policymakers, parents, educators, business leaders, and other education stakeholders to
transform our nation’s education system. We advocate for policies that empower parents, allow for
innovation, and equip students with the skills, knowledge, and character necessary to thrive as citizens
in their communities and as contributors to our increasingly competitive economy.
A Response to Stanley Kurtz’s “The Blue State Education Nightmare”
Education statistics in the state of Rhode Island are sobering. In its capital, Providence, 94% of
students are not proficient in math, and 86% of students cannot read or write at grade level.
Whereas classical Marxism placed its focus on economic class struggle, the post-Marxist position
instead argues for cultural struggle and radical reform of society.
Reproduction of the social order, as noted by Gottesman, corresponds to social relations of dominance
and subordination in the economic domain – so what is needed in the educational system is to promote
radical social change with the goal, according to Apple, to push for a “feminist, anti-racist,
democratic-socialist society… one that can forcefully push against the structures and ideologies
that support and entrench patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.”
Information and Resources
Explore the Education Freedom Report Card and find out how you can get involved today.
Educational freedom includes:
Parental Rights
Parents should not face barriers to being involved in their children's education.
School Choice
Families should be able to make decisions that provide the best education for each child.
CRT
Students should not be subjected to harmful CRT teaching in the classroom.
Transparency
Information on school curriculum and administration should be easily accessible.
Only 24% of America’s 12th graders are proficient in math. A third are proficient in reading.
And only 12% of those seniors have an understanding of American history.
From the late 1970s, the decade responsible for the ominous, unnecessary, and unconstitutional creation
of the federal Department of Education, to today, scholastic performance has bottomed out across disciplines.
According to results from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP), also known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” only about one-third of children in grades four, eight,
and 12 are “proficient” in reading. Just six percent of 12th graders were “advanced.” And well over a
third are “below basic,” which means they are functionally illiterate.
In 2020, thousands of young people were propagandized and weaponized against their own country as they burned,
looted, and sought to tear down their cities. Make no mistake, public indoctrination played a major role in the
mindsets of many of those restless youth.
The federal government is now pushing schools to teach racism, ironically, under the pretext of anti-racism.
With that, Critical Race Theory is set to transform the nation’s schools into sites of overt Marxist conflict,
pitting whites against minorities, the wealthy against the poor, and the “heteronormative” against the “gay”
and transgendered. President Joe Biden committed billions of dollars for public schools willing to create new
ways of incorporating Critical Race Theory in their classrooms. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is
gathering support for overriding current curricular programs with Critical Race Theory initiatives.
This is what’s happening in public schools. And it’s about to get worse. The progressive resetting of American
public schools is about to be unleashed with full force on drowsy, preoccupied, and COVID-weary families from
coast to coast and from preschool through high school. New, transformative education mandates will also redirect
the learning policies of the majority of private and so-called religious schools that take their pedagogical
cues not from classical education or scriptural models, but from ideologically driven university departments of
education, with their tenured armies of social justice-drunk educrats and administrators.
