Public Policy Briefing
A Short Primer on Per
Student Spending in California
By Lance Izumi, Carl Brodt, CMA, and Alan Bonsteel Pacific Research
Institute,
November 18, 1999
http://special.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/educat/per_pupil_spending/index.html
One
of the most contentious issues in education is the debate over
per-pupil spending. In California, many education officials have
publicly lamented the state's supposedly low level of per-pupil
spending. Yet, as in the debate over the state's dropout rate,
where the numbers used by the California Department of Education
(CDE) were misleadingly underestimated, the per-pupil-spending
figures used by CDE and other officials are also low and misleading.
