It's been a while since I posted here.  I've been using this site as a bit of a sandbox for our own school site, so my writing has diminished over the past few months.

Once the school year starts, I plan to get this site up and running as a communication portal on the state of public education in California.  Given the recent budget crisis, this is a much needed part of having an active community voice.

In any case, today I ran across a very useful database of how your school dollars compare to performance.  You can check out your school district at California School Finance.

Here's a graph of return on investment for Palo Alto Unified and its peers, like Cupertino Union.