California School Funding

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This paper describes the inadequate level of California's public school system and traces the causes of this inadequacy to insufficient levels of funding as well as bureaucratic inefficiency and faulty assumptions about just how existing funds should be allocated and by whom. The paper further points out that, if adequate school funding is not available, there is an even greater need to make sure that whatever funding is available is used in the most efficient and individualized manner possible.

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"In any issue, particularly when politics are involved, there tends to be two views of a situation. The ex-ante analysis of the California State school finance system is no different. According to the "official" (and rosy) view of the current situation, the state's school finance system has achieved adequate levels of equity. Not only is this view based on the fact that the system guarantees each school district the revenue limit to which it is entitled (at a property tax rate of one percent of assessed value), but the State also is committed to paying each district the remainder between its actual "entitlement" and the funds raised through the tax income. Additionally, the State of California also has a grant program that could also compensate for any inequities arising out of the tax system."

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