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Funding Education Opportunity: Study Examines K-12 Education Spending, Teachers' Salaries & Benefit Costs
November 20, 2025
LOS ANGELES, California, Nov. 20 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following statement by senior policy analyst Jude Schwalbach and Education Reform Director Aaron Garth Smith:

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Funding Education Opportunity: Study examines K-12 education spending, teachers' salaries and benefit costs

All 50 states increased K-12 funding from 2002 to 2023, but inflation-adjusted average teacher salaries fell by 6.1% between 2002 and 2022,

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