According to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governing.com&#x2F;gov-data&#x2F;education-data&#x2F;state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governing.com&#x2F;gov-data&#x2F;education-data&#x2F;state-educa...</a><p>Utah spent $6,555 per student per year in 2013. This isn&#x27;t a lot. New York spends $19,818 per student per year. This is a lot and I&#x27;d say a lot of this money is misspent. A former teacher told me that because he raised his hand on a misbehaving student, he was assigned desk job of some kind where he&#x27;d just sign in and stay cooped up in a room all day. I don&#x27;t think there is too much money in education as much as there is too much bureaucracy in education. The &quot;support structure&quot; is too damn big. We don&#x27;t need so much administrative overhead. We do not need to spend millions on a sports stadium. We went too far on trying to get schools to create well-rounded individuals.<p>Now comes the unpopular bit: We need to scale back on &quot;no child left behind&quot; as well. No, not in the sense that George W Bush bill, in the sense that public school system does not have to educate every single child. No, not every school needs therapists and counselors and what not. We need smaller class sizes so teachers know the names of their students.