"Education spending" is a lot like "defense spending". It's a misnomer. "Education spending" includes teacher salaries, building maintenance, school supplies, curriculum...but it also includes diversity consultants, paying six figure administrator salaries for do-nothing jobs, CRT curriculum, fancy retreats for bigwigs, six figure do nothing jobs for favored crony pals, etc etc.

I remember one community college they had a lesbian as president. President Lesbo and her "wife" got to travel to China for a "women's education" conference for the whole summer. The school paid for their house and a luxury car for both "wives", expensive travel junkets, etc.

All of that follows "education spending" and that's why the left wants more of it. It's a slush fund for leftist interests. I know of one large school district that paid millions of dollars for "white privilege" consultants to come in and put on mandatory workshops. How much you want to bet the scam artist "consultants" were offering huge kickbacks to school board members?