The Educated Guess � Now 46th in nation in per student funding: "California is still knocking about the bottom in per student K-12 spending at 46th among the states and Washington, D.C., according to Education Week’s much anticipated annual survey. That’s one better than the 47th ranking last year. It might have been spared 51st because Ed Week used data from 2007, before fiscal disaster struck.
Ed Week adjusts spending to reflect regional costs of living, which is one reason why high-cost California ranks so low. In terms of unadjusted dollars, it ranked 24th, according to the last National Education Association survey.
California spent $8,164 in adjusted dollars in 2007, according to Ed Week. That’s half of the $16,386 spent by top-ranked Wyoming, and $2,400 less than the national average. Beating California to the dubious honors were Arizona ($8,010), Texas ($7,934), Nevada ($7,845), Tennessee ($7,756) and Utah ($6,228)."
