What budget cuts during the Great Recession did to pupils’ test scores - the Economist

Lawmakers sometimes cut education budgets in the hope of forcing schools to become more efficient. Given the difficulty of measuring the effects of education spending on test scores, it can be hard to know whether this is as bad an idea as, at first glance, it might seem to be. Yet America ran a large, albeit unintended, experiment along these lines in 2007-09, when school budgets were cut during the recession. What happened to the pupils? https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/06/what-budget-cuts-during-the-great-recession-did-to-pupils-test-scores