US Students Post 14-Point Reading Drop as 67% of Adults Dissatisfied With Schools
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
US Students Post 14-Point Reading Drop as 67% of Adults Dissatisfied With Schools
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Summary
U.S. 15-year-olds recorded among the country’s weakest results in a generation, with reading down 14 points and math still near historic lows in the latest PISA data.
Gallup polling matched that academic slide: 67% of adults said they were dissatisfied with K-12 education, the worst reading yet for parental and public sentiment.
Spending has not reversed the decline. The report says the U.S. now spends more than $21,000 per student, while staffing since 2014 rose by about 620,000 even as enrollment fell by roughly 775,000.
Chicago’s Frederick Douglass Academy illustrates the imbalance — 27 students, 28 adults and more than $90,000 per pupil, yet no tested student was proficient in math or reading.
School-choice demand has grown alongside that frustration: 18 states have passed universal choice policies in six years, New York homeschooling has climbed more than 200% in 15 years, and Texas has over 100,000 students on a waitlist.