Fast Fact

Average College Debt

Armand Biroonak — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

The average debt for students graduating college now exceeds $19,000.

Voucher Programs Have No Impact on Performance

Armand Biroonak — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Two studies from Bush’s own Department of Education found that the voucher program in Washington D.C. has had no impact on students’ academic performance. An exhaustive eight-year study of Milwaukee’s school voucher program reached the same conclusion.

The Cost of Higher Education: Lots of Debt

Armand Biroonak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:50 -0400

At least two-thirds of college students graduate with some debt and the average debt among graduates exceeds $19,000.

College Tuition and Fees Balloon

Armand Biroonak — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:55:54 -0400

Tuition and fees at public four-year colleges are up 46 percent since 2001.

Compared to other countries, U.S. flunks in teacher pay

Alex Carter — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:45:05 -0400

In South Korea and Germany, starting salaries for teachers are about 141% of per capita GDP, while the figure for the United States is only 81%; in fact, all countries in this sample pay their teachers a significantly higher relative wage as a starting salary compared to the United States.

WIth one day of Iraq War funding could have...

Eran Lillestrand — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:06:13 -0400

With one day of Iraq War funding we could have hired 6,921 new public school teachers for a year.

WIth one day of Iraq War funding could have...

Eran Lillestrand — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:05:09 -0400

With one day of Iraq War funding we could have sent 6,883 high school graduates to four fully funded years at
public universities.

Tax cuts could be spent on education

Eran Lillestrand — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:00:22 -0400

The Bush tax cuts for households with annual incomes above $1 million will cost more than the federal government spent last year on K-12 and vocational education. The cuts will exceed the combined budgets of the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

State college tuition rising rapidly

Eran Lillestrand — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:58:18 -0400

State colleges raised tuitions rose at three times the rate of inflation between 2000 and 2006, putting college out of reach of many families.

Poor Air Quality in Schools Equal Student Days Absent

Alex Carter — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:36:37 -0400

The American Lung Association reported that “American children missed more than 12 million school days in 2000 because of asthma exacerbated by poor indoor air quality”.