California’s Bad Bet on School Finance Leaves Too Much to Chance
It’s the Already-Fortunate Who Are Most Likely to Luck Out in the State’s Public Education System
Californians may think we have a system of public education. But what we really have is a state system for rationing public education.
I got a personal taste of this in the spring, when I took my five-year-old son to our local school district offices to determine his educational future. This being California, the determination was made not by a test of his abilities or an assessment of his educational needs. Instead, it was a lottery. A school administrator pulled names out of the hat to determine whether he would …
