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高教开支：$5.7 billion
监狱开支： $9.6 billion
http://www.baycitizen.org/education/interactive/education-vs-pr
In raw numbers, spending on both corrections and higher education has
increased since the 1980s. In fiscal year 1979, the state spent about $1.9
billion on higher education, while the corrections budget totaled $625.4
million. This year, the UC and CSU systems are receiving $5.7 billion, while
prisons account for $9.6 billion in state spending.
However, the state has imposed deep cuts to higher education in recent years
. Spending on higher education peaked in fiscal year 2007 at $7.4 billion
and has decreased nearly every year since then.
Source: The Bay Citizen http://s.tt/139kh
Education vs. Prisons: Shifting Priorities
Corrections is taking up a larger and larger slice of California's general
fund. The opposite is true of public universities.
By Jennifer Gollan, Sydney Lupkin on August 30, 2011 - 12:46 p.m. PDT
Over the past 30 years, California has spent an increasing portion of its
budget on prisons — and a shrinking share on the University of California
and California State University systems.
As the state’s budget has tightened, school districts across California
have faced the difficult task of balancing classroom spending with
ballooning costs for maintenance, energy bills and a raft of other costs.
Half of the Bay Area’s 10 largest school districts spent less than the
statewide average of 62 percent of their general funds on direct classroom
instruction costs in the 2009-10 school year, according to the most recent
figures available from the state Department of Education. They include the
San Francisco Unified, Oakland Unified, San Jose Unified, West Contra Costa
and the East Side Union High School districts.
Classroom spending accounted for 53 percent of the Oakland Unified School
District’s general fund budget in 2009-10, down from 59 percent of the
general fund in the 2003-04, school year, according to California Department
of Education figures. San Jose Unified allocated 57 percent of its general
fund to direct instruction costs in the 2009-10 school year, compared to 60
percent seven years earlier.
Among the districts that spent the smallest share of their budget on the
classroom in the 2009-10 school year were Oakland Unified, which spent 54
percent, and San Francisco Unified, which allocated 47 percent.
State funding for public school districts steadily grew between the 2003-04
school year and the 2008-09 school year, when funding was cut. It has
remained relatively flat since the 2008-09 school year.
Corrections vs. Higher Education SpendingSource: The California Department
of FinanceUC and CSU SystemsCorrections19801985199019952000200520100%2.5%5%7
.5%10%12.5%Percent of State General FundUC and CSU Systems accounted for 7.2
% of state budget in FY2007
The budget for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
increased from about 3 percent of the state's general fund in 1980 to 11.2
percent for this fiscal year, according to figures prepared at the request
of The Bay Citizen by the state Department of Finance. Meanwhile, funding
for UC and CSU dropped from 10 percent of the state's general fund 30 years
ago to about 6.6 percent this fiscal year.
Nationwide, state spending for criminal corrections has boomed. According to
an April 2011 study by the Pew Center on the States, spending for
corrections quadrupled over the last two decades, making it the second
fastest growing area of state budgets, behind Medicaid. In California,
spending for criminal corrections has more than tripled since 1980.
The state's prison population has increased significantly over the last 30
years, largely because the state began imposing determinant sentences,
meaning the vast majority of crimes have fixed prison terms. Compounding the
problem is the state's three strikes law, established in 1995. The number
of prisoners climbed from about 25,000 in 1980 to about 165,000 in 2010.
About two-thirds of the people who enter the state's prisons each year are
offenders who have violated the terms of their parole. The state spends
about $50,000 per inmate each year.
The reasons for the mounting prison costs are complex, according to Barry
Krisberg, director of research and policy at the Chief Justice Earl Warren
Institute on Law and Social Policy at University of California, Berkeley,
School of Law.
"The growth in spending for pay and benefits for prison guards, prison
health care mandated by various lawsuits, and the extraordinary amounts of
money we are paying prison doctors" all contribute, he said. "California is
clearly the worst in the U.S. for what we get and what we spend. California
has the largest prison system in the U.S., it is the most expensive per
capita rate in the U.S. and the state has some of the highest recidivism
rates of any state in the nation."
In raw numbers, spending on both corrections and higher education has
increased since the 1980s. In fiscal year 1979, the state spent about $1.9
billion on higher education, while the corrections budget totaled $625.4
million. This year, the UC and CSU systems are receiving $5.7 billion, while
prisons account for $9.6 billion in state spending.
However, the state has imposed deep cuts to higher education in recent years
. Spending on higher education peaked in fiscal year 2007 at $7.4 billion
and has decreased nearly every year since then.
Source: The Bay Citizen http://s.tt/139kh |
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