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In article <BvL4JC.Gq5@well.sf.ca.us> rchao@well.sf.ca.us (Robert Chao) writes:
>
>It is my impression that California schools' financial problems are
>worse than other states' schools.
>If that is true, why?

I think it's because the state government didn't take steps to increase the
tax base as the school age population increased faster than the taxpayer
population (we have a small baby boom that started to reach school age a 
year or 2 ago).

Unlike increasing school populations caused by immigration, which brings
more taxpayers with it as well, bumps in the demographics (I think that this
one is caused by the tail end of the baby boomer's babies ... ie it's really
caused by the end of WWII :-) are not supported in the same way, if anything
having a large number of women dropping out of the work force for a few years
decreases the tax take ....

Of course claiming you wont raise taxes under any circumstances means you
can't plan ahead for things like this - after all you get about a 5 year
warning on this one ..... plenty of time to be ready .... 

	Paul

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