41.  Already, despite zero-tolerance drug programs in place in public school, marijuana use among San Marcos teens is higher than the state average, he said.

42.  Per pupil spending in Newark, $10,700 in 1992-93, is well above the state average of $8,571.

43.  Personal incomes, once just above half the state average, reached the average by 1980.

44.  Poor counties where property values are below the state average will get $30,000 in exemptions on each home.

45.  Portsmouth's unemployment rate then was 8.5 percent, slightly above the state average and well above the national 6.8 percent.

46.  Scores on the recent California Learning Assessment Survey statewide achievement test were higher than the state average.

47.  San Francisco's suicide rate was 15.7, significantly higher than the state average of 10.7.

48.  Santana is predominantly white, politically conservative and scores slightly better than the state average on reading and math exams.

49.  Simply raising the local contribution to the state average would more than close this year's shortfall of $15 million.

50.  Six years ago, the students in Jersey City also scored badly on standardized tests, dropped out at three times the state average and had poor attendance records.