About this site

The Solution Site describes how American public schooling is organised, funded and measured.

The subject divides six ways here: the school plant and what it costs to keep; the property tax that pays for it; the tests used to argue about it; the people who set its shape; the federal acts that changed it; and the offices — federal, state and district — that decide what happens where.

Every figure on the site carries the source and the year it was taken. Pages describe how the system works and what has been recorded about it. The archive lists every page.