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Tag: School Finance

  • Tech Execs Buy Better Public Schools— For Their Towns.

    A recent article in EdSource covers the funding inequality between school districts created by “Basic Aid” Districts. I’ve written about funding inequality in Solidarity News before (SN Oct 2024, 2022…

  • Class Size– Again

    The CACS “We Can’t Wait” campaign has reducing class size as one of its demands (article on 11/26). We thought it wold be useful to repost this article from our…

  • Unequal School Bonds

    Last February, Public Advocates sued the state of California because the current school facilities bonds facilitates inequality between poorer and wealthier districts. From their filing: .  “California’s system of funding…

  • Teacher Pay Gap

    —— From the Economic Policy Institute   EPI.org

  • “Basic Aid”

    How can different school districts spend such different amounts of money per student when LCFF funding from the state of California is the same for each student, with supplemental money…

  • Is School Funding Equal?

                Look at This!   Expenditure data is from SARC reports filed with CDE We are told that school funding in California is equal, but…

  • #15 Parcel Taxes: Unequal by Design

    Parcel taxes are the only way for California school districts to get additional tax funding beyond their allocation from the state. Parents, and educators want more money for schools— and…

  • #15 Cuts at OUSD and WCCUSD—The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Again

    Many news outlets (S.F. Chronicle, Mercury News, Cal Matters, ABC, NBC, Oaklandside and more) are running articles about the deficits of many school districts, most prominently OUSD, WCCUSD, and SFUSD. …

  • #14 Teacher Salaries vs. Other College-educated Workers by country

    In the last issue I wrote about two graphs comparing the relative expenditures on education across countries and US states. I also found this one, showing the ‘teacher penalty’ across…

  • #13 Is % GDP What We Want?

    When we argue for increased spending on public education we often say that “the fifth largest economy in the world” can easily afford to adequately fund schools. So we’re talking…

  • #12 % GDP spent on education, by state

    “the fifth largest economy in the world” What percentage of the whole state economy is spent on education? We’ll have some comments on this graph, and another one comparing countries,…

  • #9 School Funding: Feast or Famine?

    If you listen to our Governor, California is making record-breaking investments in schools.  If you listen to our school districts, California is about to fall off a fiscal cliff next…

  • #9 Fire FCMAT

    Last Spring, Mike Fine, the CEO of FCMAT, spoke at a West Contra Costa Unified School District board meeting, saying that the district needed to “manage its expenses”, even though…

  • #9 A 53% Raise?

    We all know teacher salaries have declined in real dollars— but by how much?  I compared the salary of a beginning Berkeley teacher in 2004 (step 1, column 1), the…

  • #6 Unequal Funding:

                A Tale of Two Schools California is #32 among the 50 states in per pupil expenditures— but the reality is worse than that. Teacher…