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30 September
7:17 pm

Close to forty percent of our budget in California is for our schools.

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Xavier Becerra, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:17 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figure about California's budget allocation for schools — verifiable against California state budget data.
What we foundThe ~40% figure applies to K-14 education (K-12 plus community colleges) under the Proposition 98 guarantee, not to schools alone, and more recent budget data puts the K-12 share at roughly 36%.
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