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Whether the money is "wasted" or not on those expenditures has to do with how it's spent, not what the categories are.

There are about six million K-12 students in California. At the level of spending in your chart, that's about $7,500 per student. Just in California state funds. That does not include the local property tax funding that goes into education, Federal education money, bonds floated for capital expenditures, or other government sources. When you tally all that up, you're looking at almost $11,000 per California student.

Average private school tuitions are in the $6,500 range. The most expensive secular private schools are in the $12,000 range.

And you really don't want to look at the corrections system if you don't want to see waste, fraud, and abuse.

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