Without Dollars or Sense The Budget Crisis and California’s School Funding UCLA/IDEA

1. There can be leadership as there can be following only when human beings think together about a common theme with a shared purpose to a common result. Leadership is absent because this power of collective thinking in connection with solidarity of emotion and desire is lacking today. ---John Dewey, 1932

2. Without Dollars or Sense The Budget Crisis and California’s School Funding UCLA/IDEA

3. Less Dollars

4. Budget Cuts meancuts to instruction.

5. Source: Ed Data

6. Budget Cuts meancuts to programs and services

7. Conditions in California public schoolsin the “good old days”

8. I worry about the lack of infrastructure and resources that are available for these people to actually do their jobs. ---Father of California public school student, 2008 Its all about the zip codes in California. It’s good if you live in what you call the exclusive, good areas. ---Mother of California public school student, 2008

9. How much does California spend? *Per pupil expenditures for 2009-10 based on projections from NEA **Adjusted Per Pupil expenditures for 2007 based on Education Week, Quality Counts, 2010.

10. Source, Education Week, Quality Counts, 2010

11. Source: CBP*

12. What Can’t California Buy? • CA Ranks 50th of all states in students per teacher • CA Ranks 50th in students per librarian • CA Ranks 49th in students per counselor • CA Ranks 46th in students per administrator Source: NCES 2007*

13. And Zip Codes Matter(funding is not equally distributed)

14. Between district inequalities

16. Within District Inequality ????? no way to follow the money But inequalities are evident. . .

17. Within District Inequality Spending on Teachers in LAUSD *This analysis based on 2004 data

18. So why are things so bad?

19. Where is CA using its tax dollars???

23. What revenues fund CA schools?

24. Education $ come from multiple sources: Source: EdSource, 2004

25. Could the pie be bigger?

28. Source: CBP

29. K-12 Spending as % of personal income* California: 3.28% United States: 4.25%California Ranking: 46th*For 2008-2009, California Budget Project.

30. Where do we go from here?

31. A Constitutional Debate in 1849 • Proceeds from Federal Lands “shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of common schools throughout the State.” • Critics worried that leaving these funds open to other uses might create “too large a fund for the support of education … [and] “might deprive the state of the means of supporting itself without onerous taxation.”

32. A Commitment to Education I am decidedly in favor of placing every farthing that we can, and secure it by constitutional provision, in the hands of this community for the purpose of educating our children. Nothing will have a greater tendency to secure prosperity by the State, stability to our institutions, and an enlightened state of society, than by providing for the education of our posterity. ---Mr. McCarver

33. What do Californians say?

41. Constitutional Questions Redux:Robles-Wong v. CaliforniaCampaign for Quality Education v. California

42. Education is a fundamental right under the California Constitution. The State has defined this right through adoption of academic content standards that are “based on the knowledge and skills that pupils will need in order to succeed in the information-based, global economy of the 21st century.” Cal. Educ. Code §60602. Curriculum, instructional materials, teacher training, assessments and accountability measures are all aligned with these academic standards. This standards-based education program clearly defines what all schools must teach and what all students are expected to learn.

43. A question of framinghttp://www.fairschoolsnow.org/