Additional key findings from the report included:
• After adjusting for factors outside of a district’s control, some districts spent thousands more per student to obtain the same level of academic achievement.
• The most inefficient districts in the country devoted an extra three percentage points of their budgets, on average, to administration, operations and other non-instructional expenditures.
• Over 400 school districts around the country were rated as highly inefficient, and more than a million students are enrolled in these districts.