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Wading through data on student spending
- 09-09-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Does California’s school spending rank 28th or 43rd among the states? It depends if you factor in the relative cost of labor. California’s per capita K-12 spending was above the national average, but its spending per student was $591 below the national average. Can both be true? Yes. People will cite various figures and rankings on California’s school spending, depending on whether they want it to appear terrible or tolerable. In its latest report, How California Ranks, the non-partisan think tank EdSource makes sense of the numbers and puts them in context. The only problem is that the report uses figures for 2007-08, the latest school year available and the last year before the economic downtown that has hit California about the hardest in the nation. So the rankings will only get worse. (more…)
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