re: #62 J A P

I’ve taken out the relevant passages. Here’s the original: Public School Funding and Performance.

Whoa lots of data. Says California spans 8000 per pupil. Okay I need to see how that number comes together. When I divided the LAUSD budget into the student population it came out to about $9700.

6.78 Billion spent on 694,288 students.

I’m off to read through that. One paragraph I found very interesting-

Second, how states fund public education makes a difference. When funding is decomposed into
federal, state, local property tax and other local (e.g., county) components, the dominant driver of
NAEP performance is shown to be local funding. This finding supports the contention that local
funding goes hand in hand with local accountability: communities that own and control their own
schools tend to demand higher performance from them, and are likely to be more supportive of
them in turn. Public school systems that are primarily dependent on state funding generally have
lower average NAEP performances.