Show Me The Money: How California Schools are Funded

California already spends less than most states on its education system. And that was before the Governor proposed cutting $4.8 billion more out of the system for 2008-09.

Where does that money come from? Where is it spent? How is it distributed? This video is a short introduction to the crazy California school finance system.

After you're done watching, head on over to www.RightToLearnCA.org and sign up to lead a rally at your school on April 18, 2008 to protest against school budget cuts.

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[terrafirma91]

@GACowell : This information was in a book authored by Phil Kent, and I later donated the book to my local library. As could be expected, the library never placed it into their system, probably because it didn't fit in with their Nanny State paradigm. Libraries are taxpayer funded, and any criticism of tax funded entities is strongly censored by library personnel. You might find the information online by searching Phil Kent.

[GACowell]

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

[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.