"Educating California's nearly 6 million public school students is the state budget's second largest expenditure, and one that has increased sharply during Gavin Newsom's governorship. The 2026-27 budget that Newsom proposed last month would spend $88.7 billion on students, ranging from transitional kindergartners to high school seniors. When local property taxes and federal aid are included, the total would be nearly $150 billion, an average of $27,418 per pupil."
"Education officials constantly press for more state spending, which is governed by complicated formulas in a 1988 ballot measure, Proposition 98. Newsom's budget calculates that the minimum Prop. 98 guarantee in state and local funds would be $125.5 billion, but he wants to delay $5.6 billion in payments to reduce the budget's deficit essentially a loan from the schools to the state, one of many maneuvers he and the Legislature have used to close the gap between revenue and spending."
California allocates K–12 education as the state budget's second-largest expenditure for nearly 6 million public school students. The proposed 2026–27 state spending is $88.7 billion, and including local property taxes and federal aid totals nearly $150 billion, averaging $27,418 per pupil. Nominal per-pupil funding rose 61% from $17,014 at the start of the governor's term, but 29% inflation during that period reduces the real gain roughly by half. Recent data place California around the middle of states in per-pupil spending. The Prop. 98 minimum guarantee is calculated at $125.5 billion, with a proposed $5.6 billion payment delay that pushes costs into the future.
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