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A 17 page paper discussing the possible benefits of California's Proposition 82, which if passed will provide access to universal (voluntary) preschool for all 4-year-old children in the state, followed by a cost-benefit analysis of the effects of the initiative. If approved, Proposition 82 will require that the state of California provide universal preschool of at least a half day for 180 days during the year for all of the state's four-year-olds. It is to be funded with an additional state income tax of 1.7 percent on taxable incomes over $400,000 for individuals; $544,457 for heads-of-household and $800,000 for married couples. Superficially the measure appears to be workable and fair, but closer analysis reveals that the measure constitutes a lose-lose scenario for all involved, including the 22,000 additional preschoolers who directly benefit from the program. Proposition 82 promises to have far-reaching and highly negative effects. Bibliography lists 19 sources.
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17 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KScbaCAprop82.rtf
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A persistent paradox of obtained results in public education is that most strive to equate per-student spending with rates of academic success, despite repeated demonstration that per-student spending
is only one - and not the most important - aspect of public education. At the state level, there are school systems that spend more than California per student
with greater measured success; there are others that spend far less and have greater measured success than either California or the higher-spending states that surpass it. Californias total expenditure
for public education is the nations highest because California has the highest number of public school students - more than two million more than the state occupying the second position.
In terms of per-student spending, however, California ranked 25th for the 2002-2003 school year at $7,244. It increased that spending 6.2 percent for the next year, bringing per-student
spending in 2003-2004 to $7,692 (Rankings and Estimates, 2004). For its efforts, it declined in per-student spending to 30th place in the country (Rankings and Estimates, 2004).
Doubly frustrating for California is that "high school graduation rates in California are much worse than reported by the state, and are alarmingly low for
African-American and Latino students" (New Research Exposes Hidden High School Drop Out Crisis, 2005). "Official" graduation rate in California is 87 percent, but statistics dispensing with bias and questionable
treatment of raw data indicate that Californias actual overall rate of high school graduation is 71 percent. "The graduation rates for African-American and Latino students are even lower, 60
percent for Latino students and 56.6 percent for African-Americans. (New Research Exposes Hidden High School Drop Out Crisis, 2005). One of the authors
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