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School spending falls further behind rest of nation
- 07-02-2010
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By Louis Freedberg/California Watch
California continues to fall behind other states when it comes to school funding. Just how far? California now ranks 44th in how much it spends on its students – or $2,546 less than the average spent in the rest of the United States. That's the lowest it has been in 40 years, in a depressing report from the California Budget Project. The report calculates that just to bring California to the national average would require an extra $15.4 billion in spending – an increase of 29.5 percent. Those numbers underscore the impossibility of California catching up to the rest of the nation within any reasonable time period – if ever. (more...)
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