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CA schools’ long financial fall
- 03-24-2010
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By Mia Taylor/KPBS San Diego
The last time California spent more money on students than most other states in the country was 45 years ago, according to government and education association statistics. During the past five decades the state’s per pupil education spending has plunged from a one-time high of fifth in the nation in 1965 to 43rd in 2009. “The citizens of California used to spend 5.6 percent of our personal income on schools. Now we are spending 3 percent,” said California’s former Secretary of Education John Mockler. “We are spending 26 billion less on our children’s education, as a percent of our income, then when Ronald Reagan was governor in 1972 – before revenue limits and Proposition 13 and all of those things passed,” Mockler, now an education consultant, said. (more...)
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