Earlier this month, we surprised two San Diego Unified school board members with a couple of eye-popping charts that we produced in an effort to understand the district's financial crisis.
The school board and district officials have been saying for months that the district has been repeatedly underfunded by the state and federal governments. But our analysis showed that while the district has, indeed, suffered significant cuts in the last few years, those cuts just offset an equally significant ramping up of education funding during the first half of the decade.
This chart shows how the district's funding has been cut since the 2006-07 school year:
Morning Report: Getting Closer to Solving a Schools Mystery
Posted: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:43 am |Updated: 7:44 am, Wed Dec 21, 2011.
We're digging deeper into explanations for the financial crisis facing San Diego schools. District leaders have blamed the crisis on a drop in funding from the state, but we've shown that they're only getting a bit less than they did a decade ago. What gives?
We've got four revealing graphics that put us on the road towards solving the mystery we've been pursuing for months.
Health care costs are up. That's not exactly surprising, but it has contributed signficantly