Suit looming against California over school funding - San Jose Mercury News - 1 views
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California spends $35.7 billion, or about 30 percent of its budget, on its 10,000 public K-12 schools
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California has trailed national per-pupil spending since 1979, and now the gap is $1,700 per student
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Since 1979, cases have been brought in about 30 other states. But while 14 resulted in court-ordered funding increases, cases decided in the past four years have tended to favor the states
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As those of you in my EDU 522 class know, we have spent quite a while on the issue of unequal school funding. The Kozol video we watched in class raised the question of how each state pays for its public schooling, and as a result I have been trying to determine which states still use local property taxes (thus perpetuating the inequality of schools within the state) and which have instituted reforms to equalize funding. The problem is, none of this information is compiled in a concise manner. This is a recent article discussing this issue; I am still trying to find others.