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California strives to educate millions of students with varying geographic, ethnic and income backgrounds. We cover how the state is setting priorities and spending public money to meet them.

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Students on campus at the University of California, Davis in Davis on Feb. 2, 2022. Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters He spent decades researching dementia. Trump’s DEI purge killed his grant, and dozens more
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School budgets are growing, but so are pension payments
Gov. Jerry Brown will propose another healthy budget on Thursday that will be vetted and adopted by the Legislature in June. That’s good news for K-12 public education, which accounts for more than 40 percent of state funds. So why aren’t school district officials jumping up and down? One reason is the growing pension contributions […]
By • January 6, 2016
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How much has California school spending grown in the last 5 years?
One of the biggest winners in Gov. Jerry Brown’s January budget was public schools, which has enjoyed a rapid funding rise in recent years. The governor proposed a $71.6 billion education budget in the fiscal year that starts this July. That marks a 51 percent increase in the minimum funding for California’s public schools — according to the formula set by […]
By • January 4, 2016

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