That amounted to a stunning $37,000-plus for every kid in the system last year.
Families could have used that money to send their kids to private schools, likely with better results.
New York’s nation-leading per-student outlays have long been off the rails, but began soaring wildly as early as 2016.
Between then and 2022, they grew 46.9% — more than double inflation.
With funding bloated by $7 billion in DC pandemic aid, and already-declining enrollments plummeting even faster, fiscal year 2022 spending per student rose 15.2% over the year before.
