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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[therrin.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I wonder about the funding too. Capistrano makes a LOT of money though. I remember being told that the principal for their high school makes 1.5x the pay of a principal in Irvine. I saw this weird like 6 hour PBS style special on the california budget system awhile back (weirdly enough I think I was in England at the time) and I remember being highly intrigued to learn that most of the funding for districts like Irvine comes from buisness donations and a district foundation. I always wonder how much that gets factored in in the system at the state level in distributing funds.