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California's spending per pupil is so high right now? 24,000$? It's so bad that at this point it's more of a jobs program for unions

vundercind 3y ago
Depending on how it’s calculated and how California’s educational system is structured, this may include some extreme outliers, like schools attached to correctional institutions, or dedicated schools for those with various physical or mental disabilities. There also may be a few selective-admittance public schools with well-above-median spending. As far as money directly spent educating kids in an ordinary school (not shared costs like building construction and maintenance, or utilities) some cost way more than others. A bus-riding kid with an address not that close to any other students with an IEP requiring a tutor to follow them around and help them in every class or a special self-contained classroom serving only a handful of students but requiring 2-3 dedicated staff can cost 5-10x more than a student with no special requirements whose parents drive them to school or who live near what would be a bus-stop regardless of their attendance. Individual student costs vary a ton, and when averaging over entire systems you also may have extreme outlier institutions throwing off the numbers. California in particular also has a (much) larger ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) burden than most other states, which will tend both to increase their costs and depress their standardized testing results.
dragonwriter 3y ago
> California's spending per pupil is so high right now? 24,000$? Different sources on the web give wildly different numbers for per pupil spending by states (obviously, including different universes of spending), but every one of them puts CA near the middle of the 51 (states+DC). So, no, in relative terms, its not “so high”.

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California's spending per pupil is so high right now? 24,000$? It's so bad that at this point it's more of a jobs program for unions

by google234123 3y ago

vundercind 3y ago
Depending on how it’s calculated and how California’s educational system is structured, this may include some extreme outliers, like schools attached to correctional institutions, or dedicated schools for those with various physical or mental disabilities. There also may be a few selective-admittance public schools with well-above-median spending. As far as money directly spent educating kids in an ordinary school (not shared costs like building construction and maintenance, or utilities) some cost way more than others. A bus-riding kid with an address not that close to any other students with an IEP requiring a tutor to follow them around and help them in every class or a special self-contained classroom serving only a handful of students but requiring 2-3 dedicated staff can cost 5-10x more than a student with no special requirements whose parents drive them to school or who live near what would be a bus-stop regardless of their attendance. Individual student costs vary a ton, and when averaging over entire systems you also may have extreme outlier institutions throwing off the numbers. California in particular also has a (much) larger ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) burden than most other states, which will tend both to increase their costs and depress their standardized testing results.
dragonwriter 3y ago
> California's spending per pupil is so high right now? 24,000$? Different sources on the web give wildly different numbers for per pupil spending by states (obviously, including different universes of spending), but every one of them puts CA near the middle of the 51 (states+DC). So, no, in relative terms, its not “so high”.