Daily Chart: Public School Spending By Race // (Steven Hayward).

Yesterday’s oral argument about affirmative action featured a notable aspect: Justice Sotomayor went full-on critical of race theory and claimed that urban public schools are lacking in resources for common sense and rigorous instruction. However, Sotomayor, as most liberals, does not measure this in money.

This is what it looks like: While there are large differences in per pupil spending across the country for a variety normal reasons, the spending breakdown by race shows that the spending is more comparable: