The Facts 

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one in eight

California is the eighth largest economy in the world and we educate 1 in 8 children in the U.S. 

1,500,000 That's how many more kids we educate than the next largest state (that's Texas by the way).

 

Currently California ranks last in:

Teacher to student ratio

Librarian to student ratio

Guidance counselor to student ratio

California ranks 47th for district officials/administrators to student ratio

 

30%

Over 30% of California students do not graduate from high school. Dropouts from the class of 2008 will cost California almost $42.1 billion in lost taxable wages over their lifetime.

 

California ranks towards the top...

in academic standards (one report puts us at the top!) but we unfortunately do not teach all of our standards each year. Did you know we have standards in all the arts, music, visual, theatre and dance as well as science, math, language arts, physical education and social studies for every grade?

 

44th

In 2008-2009, before the last year of budget cuts, California ranked 44th in per pupil spending in the U.S. In 1987, when Proposition 98 was passed, California ranked 30th. In 2008-2009, California spent $2,131 less per pupil than the national average.Robles-Wong v. California, pg. 32.

 

Per pupil spending in California has been declining since the early 1990s. Presently the state spends less than 46 other states to educate their children. 

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