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K-12 Education Funding 2025-2026 (continued) |
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I
spent considerable time and effort on analysis of some
non-canonical twin weapons: |
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nunchaku (California gave up on considering them a deadly
weapon just recently); sai |
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(also known as gen in Chinese) and tonfa. I wanted to test out
changes in materials, |
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dimensions, features and coloring. |
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However, I was bothered that the financial difficulties for
school districts in Calaveras |
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County might not be unique. So I dusted off some of the old
IMAGSTS econometric |
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modelling software. It was useful to consider the situation as
an economic games theory |
| scenario where the players were
school districts, schools, teachers, staff (including aides), |
| the State of California and the US
Federal government. In building the database tables |
| of 2,000 school districts and 10,000
schools employing over 260,000 teachers and trying to |
| educate over 5 million students it
was disappointing to encounter problems with data |
| quality and timeliness. Nothing that
had not been a fact of life and a daily irritant during |
| decades of dealing with data from the
United States Central Intelligence Agency, the |
| World Bank and statistical agencies
from dozens of countries. Astute readers will note that |
| parents, students and counties are
not mentioned as players. |
| The initial results were quite
dismaying - hundreds of school districts and thousands of |
| schools were in dire straits
financially. Obviously, teaching 30-odd students in Calaveras |
| was not going to make much of an
impact. At the same time, prospects had darkened |
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for importing skilled teachers from China while
American teachers were trained. So |
| I very unhappily looked into the
logistics of having classes with 40 to 50 students. I do |
| NOT consider such situations to
really be teaching, but times appeared desperate. |