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The analysis of local governmental expenditures, made every five years, is based upon data compiled by the Department of Commerce for its current “Census of Governments”. The previous one was in 1962.
The report shows that total spending in Rappahannock County for public purposes amounted to $175 per local resident in the year. Of this, $147 was for education.
In other counties across the country, the per capjta cost of education averaged $146. Throughout Virginia, it came to $124 at the local level. According to a survey of 1,200 school districts, made by School Management Magazine, the average school is spending 13 percent more per pupil this year than last.
The current outlay is $682 per elementary pupil, compared with $616 In 1969, and $757 per secondary pupil, as against $671 previously.
The increase has had little effect, however, on the quality and quantity of education, that children receive, it finds. The extra money represents higher operating costs.
“Until Inflation cools down, school districts that increase spending will, in effect, simply be spinning their wheels,” it concludes.
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