Also a huge amount of that funding is captured by the administrative bureaucracy and never gets anywhere near a classroom. The state is spending around $375,000

Also a huge amount of that funding is captured by the administrative bureaucracy and never gets anywhere near a classroom. The state is spending around $375,000 per year on a class of 25 students and $450,000 per year on a class of 30 students. I picked those numbers based on this[1]. Teacher salaries range from about $50,000 to about $100,000[2]. Let's assume benefits and other costs of employment double that. With those conservative assumptions, a small class has $175,000 or $7000 per student per year that isn't being spent on instruction. I seriously doubt California schools are providing students with $7,000 worth of supplies every year. I'm confident that a significant percentage if not a majority of California parents would prefer to get a $15,000 tax credit per school age child per year than the education the public school system is offering. For a family of four, that's an additional $30,000 in after tax money. That's enough to be a single income household even in California. [1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/tables/ntps1718_fltable06_t1s.asp https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/tables/ntps1718_fltable06_t... [2] https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp https://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fr/sa/cefavgsalaries.asp