{"id":1817,"date":"2014-04-09T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2014-04-09T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T17:28:48","slug":"sf-gate-tiny-marin-county-district-clings-to-struggling-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/04\/09\/sf-gate-tiny-marin-county-district-clings-to-struggling-school\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Gate: Tiny Marin County district clings to struggling school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/04\/0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1818\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2014\/04\/0-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/author\/jill-tucker\/\">Jill Tucker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Paul Chinn<\/p>\n<p>Despite the state&#8217;s economic recovery, a Marin County school district is struggling to make ends meet and is planning to cut teachers, administrators and special programs in the coming\u00a0months.<\/p>\n<p>While unusual, that wouldn&#8217;t normally be noteworthy save for one not-so-minor detail: The Sausalito Marin City School District, thanks to a property tax loophole, has almost $30,000 a year to spend on each of the 150 students at its single\u00a0school.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s triple or quadruple the amount spent by most public schools and several thousand more than elite private schools. It&#8217;s also just shy of the cost for a year of college at UC Berkeley, including room and\u00a0board.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s still not enough to pay the bills &#8211; or lure the area&#8217;s middle- and upper-class families to send their kids\u00a0there.<\/p>\n<p>How then does a metropolitan school district with huge piles of cash, along with money woes, mediocre test scores and one under-enrolled school continue to\u00a0exist?<\/p>\n<p>The situation in Sausalito Marin City exemplifies the staying power of tiny and expensive school districts arguably clinging to community control and historical precedence rather than common\u00a0sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/education\/article\/Tiny-Marin-County-district-clings-to-struggling-5378122.php#photo-6120446\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story: Jill Tucker Photo: Paul Chinn Despite the state&#8217;s economic recovery, a Marin County school district is struggling to make ends meet and is planning to cut teachers, administrators and special programs in the coming\u00a0months. While unusual, that wouldn&#8217;t normally be noteworthy save for one not-so-minor detail: The Sausalito Marin City School District, thanks to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2014\/04\/09\/sf-gate-tiny-marin-county-district-clings-to-struggling-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SF Gate: Tiny Marin County district clings to struggling school<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[72,129],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag","tag-jill-tucker","tag-sf-gate"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}