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Part of the issue is how unevenly distributed the money is. Look at slide 7/8 in https://www.cusdk8.org/cms/lib/CA02218495/Centricity/Domain/...

$8,200 per pupil in Cupertino, $24,700 in Woodside

CUSD is considering closure of three schools and eliminating librarians and art and music due to the failure of passing a parcel tax, and low per-pupil funding. Lots of folks on the street argue “it’s the administrator salaries!” but when you actually look at the budgets there’s just not enough money to keep the schools running. Teachers commute from over the mountains. Administrators are paid reasonably, but that’s the cost when their skill sets would easily apply to project management at a local tech company. Money’s not always the solution but sometimes it is.