The Special Education Spending Puzzle

The article reports a pattern that raises more questions than it answers.

It describes California school districts with different levels of total resources as spending roughly similar shares on special education. Treat that comparison as an article-reported observation until a public table documents the district sample, years, spending definitions, and estimates.

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What is the special education spending puzzle?

The article reports that some California school districts with different total resources spend roughly similar shares on special education. No matching public output currently reproduces the comparison.