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Nearly 2.6 million K-12 public school students live in homes where a language other than English is spoken.
40% of jobs in California will require a bachelor’s degree in less than a decade, making access to higher education critical to California’s prosperity.
The state budget provides most of the funds that are used to educate California’s 6.2 million K-12 students.
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