Show Me The Money: How California Schools are Funded

[GACowell]

This is great! I'm doing a research report on school funding and this is really helpful, even the comments :) It would be neat if you explored more on how property tax affects the local schools funding (i.e., expensive houses have higher prop tax, thus local schools are better. Not fair to low income neighborhoods with cheaper houses)

[4HITMAN7]

search "The True Cost of Public Education"

[svtuition]

I could not understand still, please explain again

[Yooskins]

This video was SO helpful. I'm writing a paper on the funding of K-12 music programs, but even after tons of searching I still couldn't find a good explanation of the funding process. Until I found this, of course. Thank you!

[jlerot076]

I think your argument about treating alcohol poisoning with alcohol is a bad analogy. Be specific about the type of alcohol. The treatment to methanol poisoning is ethanol due to competitive inhibition and binding affinity. Both of which are alcohols because they contain a hydroxyl group.

[rattleandburn]

I was just starting high school when Prop 13 passed. Many programs were cut. My high school only offered athletics in 3 sports - Football, Basketball and Baseball. Things were so bad for my school that my history textbook in 1981 was a discarded book from a neighboring district. The book said,"One day the United States will land an astronaut on the moon! Prop 98 didn't really improve things very much. What the video didn't mention is that Calfornia spends $5 Billion on special education!

[waverly2468]

I think we're getting tired of the "children are our future" argument. If they are our future, then the future is going to be like a "Terminator" movie. This is a bad time to ask the governor for education money because by July 4 the state is going to be broke.

[74u73hjd]

Drinking more alcohal isn't going to cure alcohal poisoning. Putting more money in schools isn't going to cure its inefficiency.

[terrafirma91]

The tax receipts of the past are now gone. Income taxes from well paying Middle Class jobs have moved offshore. The State is paying out more money than what they take in. Taxes have already been increased to the highest levels possible. Many working class families have only enough cash leftover to purchase other necessities. California voters MUST wake up to reality. The State cannot fund every aspect of a citizen's life.

[Bewitchingeyes]

You're right they can't. But Education is a necessity. How about we go back and underfund your education and see how you turn out.

[terrafirma91]

My only question about education is, how much funding is enough? According to an article by Phil Kent, nationally there is one administrator per every six teachers. This is ridiculous! School districts are over-staffed, and top heavy in administration. The more money spent on education doesn't translate into higher SAT scores. Wash. D.C. spends more per student than any district in the country, and they have the least percentage of students graduating, with the lowest scores. Are you a teacher?

[GACowell]

@terrafirma91 May I ask what that article by Phil Kent was called? It would be very beneficial for my report.

[acevu810]

yup, the gonvernor cut 4.8 billion budget from education. We'r being forced to into a position of being victim of political wrangling. There will be a lot of problems, so plz dun cut the money education

[valeroo214]

This is the wrong information. to see the right informaition look at heroes we need on this website. Schools in California are losing money because of the budget cut not all those things. If you want to help california schools Write Letters to the govoner