History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
No longer highest paid teachers
- 04-13-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Teachers in California no longer earn, on average, the most of any state in the nation. New York has taken over that distinction. California has the second highest student to teacher ratio in the nation (20.9:1), next to Utah’s 21.4. And its spending per student has fallen two notches to 43rd in the nation. These are some of the statistics from the National Education Association’s annual report Rankings and Estimates for 2010. There aren’t many surprises, given the state’s fiscal mess. And since most of the data comes form the 2008-’09 year, figures on school spending will likely detereorate, relative to the rest of the nation, over the next two years. (more...)
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