A new school year is underway and many students are finding their classes not as crowded.
A California Budget & Policy Center fact sheet shows that the number of K-12 students per teacher in California has declined since passage of Proposition 30. Approved by voters in 2012, Prop. 30 boosted state revenues by raising personal income tax rates for very-high-income taxpayers and modestly raising the state sales tax rate. With a significant increase in K-12 school funding made possible by Prop. 30 and by a growing state economy, California's student-to-teacher ratio has declined from 20.6-to-1 to 19.9-to-1. The change caps a five-year period in which this ratio steadily grew.