The 2017-2018 school year saw a wave of school walkouts and protests across the country. In the vast majority of these protests and walkouts educators and education advocates were asking for increased state or local funding for education. As teachers for many years, we completely understand the cries for increased educational funding. We have always felt undercompensated for our work, and we have always felt our students have never gotten the full educational resources they need. However, with stories of Finland outperforming the world with less per pupil funding than the U.S. we got to thinking: Does increased educational funding really lead to better student outcomes, and if so, for whom? Asking this question lead us to pull the data and see where it leads…

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