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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Oddly enough, today the US got the news that for the first time ever, per-student school spending has gone down.
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Judging from the curve on the graph, I'm guessing that the funding per student has been going down since at least 2009. Keep in mind that the data isn't adjusted for inflation. Using the numbers on the graph, education funding rose by about 25% between 1992 and 2001, but only 10% between 2001 and 2011. The guess of declining funding since 2009 is based upon the curve of the graph since numbers aren't provided.
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Part of the problem is the ever-increasing costs of textbooks.
Nobody has ever managed to break *their* DRM. 
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One way to control those costs are to avoid changing the curricula and changing teaching fads every few years.