FW: State ranks low in per-pupil spending

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram - April 4, 2006

STATE RANKS LOW IN PER-PUPIL SPENDING

Texas spends less on its students than three quarters of the other states,

highlighting why the state Legislature will convene a special session this

month to fix the state's broken education funding formula. At $7,104 per

pupil, the state ranks 38th in expenditures, down from from 35th the

previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Local

Government Finances released Monday. The national average is $8,287. That

ranking is representative of a number of problems in how Texas funds public

schools, according to policy experts and educators.

Liz--how does this square with other figures you've seen about how much

Texas is spending compared to other states??? We spend almost as much as

California, just not on students???? Could it be on the plethora of

administrators that we seem to have?