California School Finance Center

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The California School Finance Center is a transparency tool created by the Pacific Research Institute and Just for the Kids—California that looks to help people understand school finance and academic achievement. It compiles publicly-available information on public school revenue, achievement, and student demographic data from a dozen California Department of Education sources to present a complete picture of California public school funding to enable informed decisions about education policies. The goal is to provide a tool that helps school districts become more efficient in their quest to raise student academic achievement.

The mission of the Center is to provide:

  • Transparency - Provide accurate, timely and searchable information on how California's public school districts and charter schools are funded.
  • Comparisons - Compare the financial and academic performance of school districts and charter schools with look-a-likes that are getting higher academic achievement from similar resources.
  • Improvement - Identify high performing school districts and charter schools based upon their finances and student academic achievement results so that others can replicate their best practices.

[edit] Source of data

Data used to create the graphic visualizations provided by the California School Finance Center is retrieved from the California Department of Education (CDE) website.

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