Here's a possible trend NO one could have imagined.
"The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue."
Just moments ago, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into effect SB1298, effectively paving the way for driverless cars in California. For a state that relies more heavily on cars than any other, this is hugely significant when it comes to traffic and road congestion.
California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, versus $5.7 billion on higher education. Since 1980, California has built one college campus; it's built 21 prisons. The state spends $8,667 per student per year. It spends about $50,000 per inmate per year.
Despite the national decline in child poverty and low-income
rates in the United States since the early 1990s, the rates in
California have surpassed those of the nation.
a large and growing majority of poor
children live in working families, and as many of
California’s poor children live in two-parent as in
single-parent families.
Almost half of
all California’s children are immigrants, and the large
majority of these immigrants are Hispanic.
Poverty rates for Hispanic children increased from 30 to 34
percent, an increase of 14 percent. Poverty rates for
African-American children went from 32 to 24 percent. At the same
time, the poverty rates for white children stayed nearly flat at
about 11 percent.
The poverty rate for Asian-American children was
19 percent during 1996–2000.
Children in two-parent families in California are more likely
to be poor than they were two decades ago, but they continue to
have much lower poverty rates than children living with single
mothers.
The state now spends more than $1,000 less per student than it did in 2007, according to the California Budget Project, a nonprofit public policy research group. Is this the beginning of the end for K-12?