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Texas has fewer students than California, but spends the same absolute amount, so your argument doesn't apply.
by ellyagg 17y ago
Texas has fewer students than California, but spends the same absolute amount, so your argument doesn't apply.
- __ 17y agoSorry, I wasn't denying that Texas spends more money per capita on textbooks. As you point out, it certainly does, according to the article. I was worried that someone might read that Texas's per-capita spending is higher than California's and draw the conclusion that this is a big reason for why California's schools suck. I've heard a lot of people make arguments like that. "Small Country X spends so much more per capita on Y! (Implied: That must be why Y sucks for us, and our lives would be better if our country would spend more on it.)" So I gave one reason why the returns California and Texas get from their respective textbook purchases are probably not proportional to their per-capita budgets.