Estimated impact of reallocating $15 billion (21%) of state and local correctional expenditures to raise teacher salaries in high-poverty schools: 2011–12*

Total state & local spending on

correctional facilities

$15 billion (21%) reduction in corrections

expenditures

Total teacher salaries in high-poverty

schools

Percentage increase in teacher salaries in

high-poverty schools

Total number of high-poverty

schools

TOTAL $72,256,388,000 $15,000,000,000 $26,925,589,181 56% 17,640

Alabama 719,248,000 149,311,643 316,864,425 47% 255 Alaska 316,239,000 65,649,351 57,905,106 113% 97 Arizona 1,545,345,000 320,804,508 457,841,161 70% 387 Arkansas 558,134,000 115,865,327 234,958,942 49% 194 California 13,691,104,000 2,842,192,444 2,541,501,121 112% 1,870 Colorado 1,243,942,000 258,235,023 438,492,594 59% 342 Connecticut 684,889,000 142,178,917 391,735,375 36% 188 Delaware 282,052,000 58,552,332 58,617,973 100% 35 D.C. 240,658,000 49,959,181 103,382,871 48% 42 Florida 4,059,237,000 842,673,661 1,230,142,732 69% 703 Georgia 2,282,943,000 473,925,503 809,906,073 59% 435 Hawaii 198,207,000 41,146,604 62,923,537 65% 57 Idaho 304,877,000 63,290,667 99,347,256 64% 136 Illinois 2,060,129,000 427,670,630 1,690,397,408 25% 821 Indiana 958,650,000 199,010,086 487,351,200 41% 340 Iowa 522,885,000 108,547,842 348,959,029 31% 274 Kansas 480,617,000 99,773,255 317,937,703 31% 267 Kentucky 738,949,000 153,401,454 276,191,688 56% 260 Louisiana 1,288,331,000 267,449,917 326,718,319 82% 266 Maine 193,735,000 40,218,243 103,399,457 39% 114 Maryland 1,749,707,000 363,228,854 369,955,212 98% 267 Massachusetts 1,056,190,000 219,258,815 861,023,435 25% 353 Michigan 2,232,057,000 463,361,869 634,190,062 73% 615 Minnesota 863,398,000 179,236,333 329,481,813 54% 303 Mississippi 558,273,000 115,894,182 151,796,815 76% 149 Missouri 862,170,000 178,981,407 428,914,641 42% 416 Montana 237,556,000 49,315,225 73,466,095 67% 145 Nebraska 361,679,000 75,082,427 266,313,224 28% 193 Nevada 704,917,000 146,336,612 205,741,574 71% 124 New Hampshire 182,525,000 37,891,114 103,607,965 37% 91 New Jersey 2,074,942,000 430,745,722 1,588,029,450 27% 489 New Mexico 602,064,000 124,984,936 218,387,618 57% 165 New York 5,771,741,000 1,198,179,391 2,545,866,411 47% 910 North Carolina 1,892,107,000 392,790,254 480,500,878 82% 414 North Dakota 142,529,000 29,588,180 55,507,517 53% 92 Ohio 1,819,327,000 377,681,555 851,256,860 44% 670 Oklahoma 655,318,000 136,040,152 326,362,958 42% 325 Oregon 1,070,380,000 222,204,575 240,677,321 92% 246 Pennsylvania 3,303,388,000 685,763,866 1,238,326,560 55% 593 Rhode Island 199,280,000 41,369,353 129,032,679 32% 57 South Carolina 675,596,000 140,249,745 251,580,825 56% 220 South Dakota 164,693,000 34,189,295 39,828,308 86% 109 Tennessee 1,048,733,000 217,710,786 500,555,906 43% 333 Texas 5,473,051,000 1,136,173,109 2,763,972,195 41% 1,623 Utah 517,998,000 107,533,330 168,065,859 64% 182 Vermont 125,873,000 26,130,492 49,313,165 53% 51

Virginia 1,887,777,000 391,891,372 559,888,055 70% 368 Washington 1,559,392,000 323,720,582 495,342,907 65% 425 West Virginia 333,775,000 69,289,721 114,686,716 60% 142 Wisconsin 1,545,438,000 320,823,814 465,311,776 69% 421 Wyoming 214,343,000 44,496,343 64,030,411 69% 66

Sources and Notes: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual Survey of Jails, and National Prisoner Statistics Program (correctional spending), U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection (expenditures on teacher salaries), and U.S. Department of Education, Common Core of Data (high-poverty schools). The $15 billion reduction in corrections expenditures is based on an estimate of the budgetary cost savings from reducing incarceration of non-violent offenders by half (Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2010, The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration, Table 3). While incarceration rates and expenditures for non-violent offenders may vary from state to state, the budgetary savings estimates in this table are based on an approximately 21% reduction in total state and local correctional expenditures in each state, and are for illustrative purposes only. *High-poverty schools are the 20% of schools in each state that had the highest percentages of students who were eligible for free- or reduced-price lunch.