ANAHEIM, Calif. – A recent study found teachers in Anaheim, California take home an average of $115,437 per year, making them among the top paid in the state at nearly $8,000 per student.

The report, produced by the California Policy Center and Nevada Policy Research Institute, calls into question the California schools’ ever-increasing employee costs in the context of mediocre student performance, and illustrates the notion that money produces results is a fallacy.

The nonprofit think tanks analyzed 2014 teacher compensation data and compared the numbers to Academic Performance Index scores awarded to California school districts based in 2013 standardized tests, ABC 10 reports.

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The average teacher salary statewide was $94,796, while the average API score came in at 795. The API scores range from 200 to 1,000, with a target score of 800 or above.

“A survey of 75 of the largest districts in which average teacher salary ranged from $81,000 to $120,000 found no connection between pay and district performance,” according to the news site. “The Chaffey Joint Union High School District had the highest average pay in the survey at $119,942. Its API score was 777. Meanwhile, San Ramon Valley Unified had the highest API score of any surveyed school, 923. Its average teacher pay was $88,638.”

“The lack of meaningful correlation between average teacher compensation and school performance, as measured by the districts’ 2013 API score, is stunning,” Mark Bucher, president of the California Policy Center, told OC Weekly. “It does show, however, that simply increasing funding is not an effective way to improve performance.”

The news site reports that of the 10 largest school districts in the survey, Anaheim Union High School District paid employees the most per pupil at $7,963. The district was the fourth highest of all 75 districts surveyed.

“Other Orange County school districts in the top 10 for employee cost per student in greater LA include No. 3 Garden Grove Unified ($7,423), No. 5 Santa Ana Unified ($7,120) and No. 10 Capistrano Unified ($5,944). The average teacher compensation in those districts is $110,737, $106,774 and $103,538 respectively,” OC Weekly reports.

The local Anaheim teachers union didn’t bother to return the Weekly’s request for comment on the high salaries.

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The news site devotes the last third of its article to pointing out a lot of background information about the California Policy Center in an apparent attempt to mitigate the facts for its mostly liberal readers.

It noted that Bucher coordinated an effort to help underprivileged inner city youth escape failing schools through proposed vouchers to attend better performing private schools.

It also noted his work to bring “back-to-basics education” and “American values over multiculturalism” back to the classroom. The site also targeted the Center’s education leader, former California state senator and Democratic majority leader Gloria Romero.

Romero “campaigned for Prop. 32, which would have barred unions from withholding money from worker paychecks to finance political activities had California voters not defeated (it) in 2012,” the Weekly reports.