Three CA Education Revenue Initiatives for November, 2012? A Comparison,...
UPDATE: as of March 14, 2012 The Sacramento Bee reports that Governor Brown and the Courage Campaign/CFT have reached a deal in which he tempers the regressive aspects of his ballot initiative by...
View ArticleSpecial Podcast: Weighted Pupil Funding & California’s Budget Process, 2012 —...
I just spoke with two impassioned and well-informed high school student leaders and a community coordinator at Californians for Justice about an emergency action to support public schools that they’re...
View ArticleCalifornia Budget Project’s Analysis of Propositions 30 and 38, For November...
California Budget Project‘s Senior Policy Analyst and specialist in education issues, Jonathan Kaplan, recently released Budget Briefs analyzing the potential impact of two ballot initiatives in...
View ArticleCalifornia Secretary of State’s Official Titles and Summaries of Proposition...
These are reproduced from pdfs found on the California Secretary of State’s website and are the official titles and summaries of Propositions 30 and 38. Proposition 30: Temporary Taxes to Fund...
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The November 2012 Save California Public Schools Toolkit
Step 1: Get informed. California Budget Project, “School Finance Facts, 2011.” Click for full report pdf. We’re on the verge of either saving our public schools from an annual cycle of disinvestment...
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February 25 & 26, 2013: The Annual California PTA Legislative Conference...
The California PTA Legislative Conference is an excellent gathering orchestrated by the state PTA and usually happens every spring after everyone’s had a chance to digest the governor’s January budget...
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Brown fights back, responds to critics of his funding formula - by John...
By John Fensterwald Gov. Jerry Brown emphatically vowed Wednesday “to fight with everything I have and whatever we have to bring to bear” for passage this year of his school finance reform, as...
View ArticleBy: Leonard Isenberg
According to Professors Lois Weiner, Diane Ravitch, and others, value added assessment has a 42% margin of error, which is never acknowledged by L.A. Times Jason Song or any of the other mainstream...
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