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Financing California’s Public Schools

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Explainer · October 2023

What’s Behind California’s Recent Population Decline—and Why It Matters

California’s unprecedented population loss during the pandemic raises questions about what a shrinking or slowly growing population means for the state’s future.

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Fact Cards

About 2 in 3 Californians support the state making its own policies to address climate change.
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California added more than 5 million people since 1990, yet urban water use changed little.
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Gun deaths drove California’s largest-ever rise in homicides.
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94% Most Californians say housing affordability is a problem in their part of the state.
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Party registration sept 2023 Democrats are the largest block of registered voters by party.
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55% Most California adults favor providing health care to undocumented immigrants.
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Schools were a key source of food for low-income families despite closures during the pandemic.
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A majority of the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools are “high need”—low-income, English Learner (EL), homeless, or foster youth.
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Safety net programs kept more than 19.7% of children out of poverty in fall 2021.
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In 2020, California lost population for the first time in state history.
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