You're technically correct: OUSD does spend more than $10k/student/year. It spends >$25k/student/year: http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified

You're technically correct: OUSD does spend more than $10k/student/year. It spends >$25k/student/year: http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified http://www.ed-data.org/district/Alameda/Oakland-Unified So $50/student is only 0.2% of the budget. The problem is that this 0.2% doesn't benefit teachers' unions.