Post by Logan on Jan 21, 2016 1:32:09 GMT -6
Gov. Jerry Brown’s new budget would boost spending on K-12 schools by several billion dollars, but the California School Boards Association says that’s a small fraction of what’s needed to adequately prepare the state’s six million students for jobs and higher education.
The CSBA released a report Wednesday asserting, “California is underfunding K-12 schools by as much as $42 billion per year.”
That would be an extra $7,000 per student on top of the $10,591 that Brown’s 2016-17 budget projects will be spent on each from state and local funds and push California’s per-pupil spending to one of the nation’s highest levels.
Raising K-12 spending has been one of Brown’s major interests since reassuming the governorship after a 28-year hiatus. Already, his budget documents say, per-pupil spending has increased by 50-plus percent since 2011 and totals $14,550 when federal funds, teacher retirement contributions and school bond payments are included.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article55701060.html
The CSBA released a report Wednesday asserting, “California is underfunding K-12 schools by as much as $42 billion per year.”
That would be an extra $7,000 per student on top of the $10,591 that Brown’s 2016-17 budget projects will be spent on each from state and local funds and push California’s per-pupil spending to one of the nation’s highest levels.
Raising K-12 spending has been one of Brown’s major interests since reassuming the governorship after a 28-year hiatus. Already, his budget documents say, per-pupil spending has increased by 50-plus percent since 2011 and totals $14,550 when federal funds, teacher retirement contributions and school bond payments are included.
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article55701060.html