Another study shows Arizona toward the bottom in education

The Census Bureau today released a study showing Arizona having the 3rd lowest per-pupil funding of K-12 education. The two states that spend less than Arizona, per-pupil, were Idaho and Utah. The highest spending states were New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. How much we spend, or how much we have to spend, depends of course on the local cost of living, since schools have to buy land, build buildings, and pay teachers based on local costs. Clearly it is more expensive to do all three in New York, New Jersey, and DC. And while Arizona may not be up there with the east coast, it is clearly not in the bottom three places in the country in terms of cost of living, which leads me to believe we are shortchanging the future of our state.