Thread by @DeAngelisCorey

Washington Post: "Public funding for schools has actually decreased since the late 1980s, adjusting for constant dollars."

This is not true.

1989: $10,840
----> 2015: $14,756

This is a real INCREASE of 36%

@washingtonpost should fix this factual error.

Here are the federal data

There is absolutely no way to spin this statement as true @washingtonpost.

Inflation-adjusted spending increased by 36%.

Link: nces.ed.gov/programs/diges…

Robert Pianta wrote this article.

He is the Dean at UVAs Curry School of Education.

He is the same guy who said:

"there is zero support for the notion that private or parochial schooling is superior to public education."

Why do university elites get to misrepresent data? 🤔

This false statement was made in @washingtonpost, here:
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/1…

@UVaCurry @UVA @bobpianta do you stand by this claim?

Or was this an editorial mistake made by @washingtonpost editors?

@UVA @UVaCurry @bobpianta still wondering if you stand by this indisputably false claim?

Inflation-adjusted spending in education did NOT decrease since the 1980s.

There is no way to defend that claim.