Education funding in this state is so arcane that only a handful of people claim to understand it.

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The Los Angeles and Inglewood school districts, for instance, have similar populations and educational challenges. Yet Inglewood received $1,400 less per student in 2007-08, the last year for which figures are available. And the relatively affluent Capistrano Unified School District in south Orange County got $1,000 less than that, while the well-off Laguna Beach schools received $3,000 more than Inglewood.

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[colleenky.livejournal.com]

Yes. A while ago, I got a bee in my bonnet about CA school funding and tried to do some online research. I kept coming across sources that referred to a formula but never the formula itself. I finally came across some site that basically said it was a byzantine, convoluted thing. I found the lack of transparency troubling.