{"id":280,"date":"2012-01-13T14:54:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=280"},"modified":"2012-01-13T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T22:54:34","slug":"california-student-spending-near-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/01\/13\/california-student-spending-near-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"California Student Spending Near Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silicon Valley Education Foundation
\nJanuary 13, 2012
\nWritten by Kathryn Brown
\n\"\"<\/a>California schools are the poster child for Gov. Brown\u2019s new budget mantra that the state can\u2019t spend what it doesn\u2019t have. The latest Quality Counts<\/em><\/strong><\/a> report from Education Week <\/em>ranks California 47th overall in how much it spends per student \u2013 $8,667 when adjusted for regional cost differences, about $3,000 below the national average of $11,665.
\nThis is a drop over last year, when California spent $8,852 per pupil, with a ranking of 43rd in spending adjusted for regional cost-of-living variations.\u00a0 Of course that was before the state faced a nearly $27 billion dollar deficit.
\nThe state also falls short when it comes to education spending as a percentage of state and local taxable resources.\u00a0 That comes to 3.3 percent according to the report, putting California in 40th place.\u00a0 The national average is 3.9 percent.\u00a0 For another perspective, Vermont puts 6 percent of its taxable resources into education; and even Texas does a little better than California at 3.7 percent.
\nThe picture is better in the equity analysis.\u00a0 California ranks 12th on a measure called the wealth-neutrality score.\u00a0 This is defined by EdWeek<\/em> as the \u201cdegree to which state and local revenue are related to the property wealth of districts.\u201d \u00a0The state\u2019s 0.038 average means that poorer districts receive more funding than wealthy ones on a weighted per pupil basis.
\nIt\u2019s interesting to note the differences in where states get the bulk of their education funds.\u00a0 In California in 2008-09, local revenues contributed $21 billion or 29.6 percent; another $9.2 billion, 13 percent,\u00a0 came from the federal government (above the national average of 9.6 percent); the state ponied up the remaining $40.6 billion.\u00a0 Nationwide, according to the National Center for Education Statistics<\/a><\/strong>, state shares ranged from a low of 27.6 percent in Illinois, to a high of 85.7 percent in Vermont.
\nFor more information please go to Spending Near Bottom.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silicon Valley Education Foundation January 13, 2012 Written by Kathryn Brown California schools are the poster child for Gov. Brown\u2019s new budget mantra that the state can\u2019t spend what it doesn\u2019t have. The latest Quality Counts report from Education Week ranks California 47th overall in how much it spends per student \u2013 $8,667 when adjusted … Continue reading California Student Spending Near Bottom<\/span> →<\/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":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag"],"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\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}