The cost of education has skyrocketed. Check out the graph on the link below... over 100 years, the inflation-adjusted cost of public-school education per student is up 30-fold. We spend more to educate one student today than we paid to educate a whole class 100 years ago even after adjusting for inflation!

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It is time to reimagine education. The average class of 30 public school students cost taxpayers $450,000.

The average teacher earns less than $50,000/year and the benefit cost per class including pensions averages around $50,000 for a class of 30 students. So direct and indirect compensation for teachers is around $100K out of $450K.

It is not that Americans are not paying enough for education and I am not suggesting that teachers are earning too much. But simply our current educational model is not working when you pay as much as we do for education but cannot attract enough teachers and children are not performing well against international standards.

The question parents and teachers should both be asking is "Where is the $350,000 per classroom of 30 students not going to teachers... going?"