After a long special session, the legislature approved a budget that featured more social service cuts but also increased educational spending.
The Government's policies have meant more choice sorry, and higher standards in educational spending per pupil.
Scholars say the measure has lowered California's ranking in educational spending per student.
And, the commission found, 60 percent of the increased educational spending went for special-education programs.
The study says educational spending for prisoners was less in 1993-94 than in the previous year.
A 1930 oil find in Rusk County had boosted the local economy, and educational spending grew with it.
It is strange that their educational spending remains the same, when certain other forms of 'welfare' spending go up to meet the demand.
From 1847 to 1850, educational spending increased from $6,000 to $144,000.
But overall educational spending has dropped when inflation is taken into account, and some kinds of spending have declined outright.
The economic crisis that beset the country in the early to mid-1980s had a severe impact on educational spending.