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Cal Matters: Fewer students and higher absenteeism plague California’s public school financing

By Dan Walters
Cal Matters

In summary

California’s public schools depend on state aid for the lion’s share of their operational income. Two trends – declining enrollment and high absenteeism – are creating financial headaches.

California’s public schools live – or die – by the numbers.

They are utterly dependent on how much money the state budget allocates each year under Proposition 98, a formula adopted by voters in 1988 that…

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