West Virginia spends $8,988 per student in K-12 with an average class size of 14.1 students per teacher. This means we spend on average $126,731 per year per classroom. This represents spending in the top 20% among all states. Yet on the ACT test, WV students score 20.6 which is 39th overall. In Math, a critical area in my opinion, WV students score 19.5 which is 48th in the nation. Yet according to the legislature we need to raise teacher salaries, where is the money going and why aren’t we getting more for the dollars we are spending?
