Education at Crossroads as Costs and Conflicts Grow
The piece surveys rising education spending, enrollments and tensions from urban schools to universities. It notes total expenditures near 52 billion, public education over 40 billion, and higher education growth, with enrollments at 57.2 million and 6.5 million in higher education. It highlights polarization by wealth, race, and ideology, calls for more funding, and signals clashes between technocratic aims and social change.