The Golden State isn?t worth it - LA Times

[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1258624341]



Price of a gallon of gas 1999: $1.20

Price of a gallon of gas 2009: $3.00



What is the conclusion you are trying to draw?</blockquote>


How much of that increase was a rise in Federal taxes? How much was a rise in State taxes? How much was minimum wage 10 years ago? How much was a gallon of milk?



As NSR pointed out, many goods cost fractions less. How much was 320GB of drive space in 1999? How much was a Compaq Presario? How much were pair of Levi jeans or a hair cut?



What was the conclusion you were trying to imply?
 
[quote author="Nude" date=1258631344]What was the conclusion you were trying to imply?</blockquote>


Other than pointing out that he was falsely inferring that the schools were spending double with nothing to show for it and it was ridiculous to state it as evidence they were failing to deliver?



If somebody wants to point out the schools are wasting that double, great, post that. But don't waste my time.
 
I love it when people try to use electronics as a basis of a pricing index.



All of my life there has always been this constant with electronics or computers.

Moores Law.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law</a>



Or as I was taught back in the late 70`s.

Every 18 months you can buy twice the computing power for half the price.

And almost 40 years later. This law still exists.
 
<a href="http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/DropoutReporting/DropoutsByGrade.aspx?cDistrictName=State&cCountyCode=00&cDistrictCode=0000000&cSchoolCode=0000000&Level=State&TheReport=GradeOnly&ProgramName=All&cYear=2006-07&cAggSum=StTotGrade&cGender=B">http://dq.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/DropoutReporting/DropoutsByGrade.aspx?cDistrictName=State&cCountyCode=00&cDistrictCode=0000000&cSchoolCode=0000000&Level=State&TheReport=GradeOnly&ProgramName=All&cYear=2006-07&cAggSum=StTotGrade&cGender=B</a>



There's the chart for all the CA counties.
 
State Total: 6,008 7,417 12,426 12,862 15,864 43,209 242 84,603 1,997,181 16.8% 4.2% 13,017 37,425 109,011 <B>21.1%</B> 5.5%



Oh yippie, their self reported tool shows only 21.1%. Slightly over 1 in 5, somewhat under 1 in 4.



Res ispa ...



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/05/high-school-dropout-rate-climbs-to-349.html



"The high school dropout rate improved slightly in California last year but rose in Los Angeles, where more than one-third of students are officially classified as dropouts, state officials said Tuesday."
 
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