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people don't want to talk about the disparity but this agency is talking about it, the silicon valley education foundationen they look at the numbers, the school districts on the west side of silicon valley get roughly $24,000 per year per student in state funding. when you go to the east side, you get $11,000 per year per student. that is less than half. they note it is authority issue but someone has to speak up and the time to do it is not because that gap between the affluent schools and less affluent schools is getting wider. repairing the workforce of silicon valley, include the brown kids and black kids when you talk with that conversation . the time to talk is now. they are urging state legislatures change the way the formula has been working more than 40 years. >> that is a big gap . i know you spoke to the superintendent , what is she saying? >> reporter: discourse on the west side of san jose, they provide robotics classes and other great opportunities for the school to be successful. she wishes she could provide robotics classes for her students but can't afford to do it. and she cannot afford

algunos años realizamos esta colectiva am son diferentes organizaciones, incluyendo silicon valley education foundationntarios que necesitan para que los estudiantes tengan los mismos logros, las mismas oportunidades que otros estudiantes tienen en este condado de santa clara no, y no es por falta de intención o de los estudiantes. yo he ido a los salones de tercer grado de quinto grado a frecuentemente como como reportero de noticias, y veo el anhelo de esas de esa juventud de progresa a de mejorar, de hacer todo lo mejor que que que 1 puede. así es que no, no, no, no, no es la. no es la falta de ese ánimo de los estudiantes, es otra cosa. y las finanzas dice usted tiene mucho que ver con eso. tiene razón. los estudiantes están listos, los maestros están listos, los administradores todos están listos. lo que sucede es que las escuelas del este de san josé actual reciben 11.000 $ por estudiante. este es el financiamiento público y otras escuelas en el mismo condado reciben hasta 24.000 $ por estudiante. entonces esta brecha financiera de inequidad es donde los distritos, las escuelas, aunque quisieran,

>> reporter: education advocates say classes like robotics are, on the west side of silicon valley, the kind of classes that help prepare the future tech workforce. the education foundations has on average that school district, west side received $24,000 in state funding per student per year. things look different on the east side. why don't you provide robotics to your students? transit we don't have the money. >> reporter: education foundation says these districts get roughly $11,000 in state funding per student per year. that is less than half of the westside allotment. dr. lisa andrew believes the state funding formula, based on property taxes, is flawed. i am raj mathai. how will the students be able to compete to become the workforce of silicon valley? until every child in our county and state receive the same allocation for their education, we can't talk about being equitable in our state when it comes to education. >> reporter: dr. andrew says the students would have opportunity to enroll in robotics classes and teachers would not have to get part-time jobs to make ends meet. her team is partnering with several other powerful education nonprofits to form the east