The $139 increase in per pupil spending is more than I thought the increase would be.
Anyway, legislators should eliminate some of the spending items immediately, including $6.7 million for unproven dropout prevention programs and $4.7 million for more diagnostic testing of students. (I thought the education establishment wanted fewer tests.) The $3.5 million that Perdue wants to give to underperforming schools will be spread pretty thin because there are many, many underperforming schools in North Carolina.
