What Money For Education?
California Schools Are Gutted. Sacramento Hasn’t Changed That.
While Governor Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats are arguing about a new funding formula for dividing up some school dollars, parents like me are still scratching our heads over why, despite the passage of the temporary-tax initiative Proposition 30 last fall, so little has changed in our schools.
For all the spin on how Prop 30 was supposed to rescue our schools, the reality has been less sunny. Between the 2007-2008 school year and today, California’s K-12 school budgets lost $7 billion, or 10 percent, of their total revenues, according …
