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California behind other U.S. States in per-pupil expenditures

October 2003
From the 1970s to the late 1990s, per-pupil expenditures in California lost ground compared to the national average. That fact, combined with the high cost of living in California, has meant that the state’s public schools have had less money to work with than the majority of their counterparts, particularly in the nation’s other industrial states.

Data: Rankings and Estimates, National Education Association, EdSource 10/03

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