Classroom Instruction

One Man's Way to Better Schools By George F. Will. The proposal is to "Require every School District to spend at least 65% of their education operational budgets in the classroom for Teachers & Kids". According to the map, Illinois currently spends 59.5% of the budget on classroom instruction, ranking 37th in the nation; following this advice would result in an increase funding of $906 million a year. Of course, as will points out:

The 65 Percent Solution solves the misallocation of resources, but there is scant evidence that increasing financial inputs will by itself increase a school's cognitive outputs. Or that a small reduction in class size accomplishes much. Or that adding thousands of new teachers would do as much good as firing thousands of tenured incompetents.