Getting your player ready...
RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post file
tudents board a bus outside The Center for Talent Development at Greenlee School in 2016. Greenlee had fewer than 300 students this past school year.
Students load a school bus outside Greenlee Elementary School in Denver on Aug. 22.Re: Dec. 1 letters to the editor.
Letter-writer John Conlin claims that “There has never been found any correlation between increased school spending and improved educational outcomes” and falls into a logical fallacy.
Washington Post reporter Max Ehrenfreund writes that the most recent research shows that increased school spending does result in better outcomes for students. A study by Northwestern and UC-Berkeley researchers that every 10 percent increase in spending results in a 9.5 percent increase in earnings as a adult. The survey was over decades and sample size was approximately 15,000 students in multiple states.
Kenneth DeBacker, Denver
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