s the Legislative Analyst points out, Proposition 98 and associated supplemental funding is not a panacea to the education funding problems caused in part by the effects of Proposition 13, which brought a greater financial contribution from the state.
             For the last thirty years, California has dedicated slightly over 50 percent of General Fund spending to K-12 and higher education. As with many state and local fiscal matters, the line of demarcation of state spending on K-12 education is court decisions in the 1960s that required a larger state presence due to significant variation in local property tax spending per pupil, and the passage of Proposition 13. Prior to Proposition 13, about 28 percent of General Fund spending was committed to K-12. Today it is about 40 percent. Prior to 1980, about 17 percent of general fund spending went to the three higher education segments: community colleges, the University of California, and the California State University system. Today higher education
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