You have to wait 20 years for the returns to society. Public education was enormously successful when it was introduced in the 19th century. There's just no profit in waiting for second order effects to kick in.
So was Rural Free Delivery. Farmers being able to communicate was a massive boon. There is a channel for farmers called RFD tv. They completely scrubbed the free provided by the government part after private equity bought the tv channel targeting farmers. Then they got Imus in the Morning so farmers listed to Imus, Rush, Hannity, and orielly forgetting the government helps them.
Diminishing returns. Per-student education spending has been going up since 1990 except a dip during the 2008 recession. Adjusting for inflations it’s now double what it was 30 years ago.
The population of students is shrinking and there is (unnecessarily) growing overhead that has to be paid for.
The people in charge of the schools don’t seem to think it’s unnecessary overhead?
of course their luxury SUVs wouldn't think it's an unnecessary overhead. Come on guy, those expense accounts aren't going to pay for themselves...
chop chop... get to it.
Why would they be any better than the people distributing the money to them in the first place? The students working hard at "providing the good educational outcomes", by this economy's standards, are suckers.
What makes you choose the 19th century for public education creation? It was my understanding the Puritans and thusly Yankees that spread through NE and the north Midwest were staunch proponents of schoolhouses and publicly funded education dating back to the to the early 17th century.
Publicly funded non-secular education didn't take off globally until the 1830s when everyone started copying Prussia.