Background...
Enrollment growth in nonpublic schools (NPS) and nonpublic agencies (NPA) grew by about 50 percent .
Costs for NPS and NPA placements grew from $114 million (adjusted total expenditure) in 1987-88 to over $302 million in 1999-2000.
Currently, almost 14,000 California students are being educated in restrictive, nonpublic schools at a cost to the state of over 302 million dollars per year. ($21,460 per student)
We can see the results of not educating/treating our troubled youth, Delta Vista School, Byron, California.