Adults sure are scarce in CA schools | The Education Report

Adults sure are scarce in CA schools | The Education Report

Adults sure are scarce in CA schools

By Katy Murphy
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 at 12:39 pm in budget.

Take a look at this June 2010 report by the California Budget Project. If you only have a minute, I suggest you zero in on Table 1.

The report ranks California 44th of 50 states in K-12 spending in 2009-10 – $8,826 per student, compared to $11,372 in the rest of the United States. And it found California schools had way fewer administrators, teachers, guidance counselors and librarians per student in 2007-08 than the national average.

There are 809 students for each guidance counselor in California, compared to 440 elsewhere in the United States; 21.3 students per teacher, compared to the national average of 13.8; and 358 students for each administrator, compared to