Spending increased in every county in the state in 2003 and Maryland as a whole allocated about $8,921 per student, the 13th-highest amount in the country.
Anne Arundel's figure was $8,361, while Queen Anne's County saw the smallest increase in Maryland, $148, to $8,025.
School officials and government watchdogs split on whether spending guarantees a better education - or even whether the census numbers measure the full amount that schools shell out per student.
Pat Foerster,...
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