Governor Newsom just released his proposed budget for the state. Carol summarizes what it means for public education, and how to learn more about it.
Investments in the education budget are critical. So are investments that level the playing field in even more basic ways.
California's funding for education has been skimpy for decades. Chapter 8 lays out the facts, including where the money for education comes from, where it goes, and what it buys.
The budget for education grew. It did. But the costs of pensions and special education grew more, so cut, cut, cut!
On the surface, California's new draft budget seems great. But it does little to really change the state's skimpy investment in children. This post explains.
Federal support for after-school programs is on the chopping block in the President's recently announced federal budget proposal. Even in California, funding shortfalls put these programs at risk. Should they be cut?
It's true that this budget delivers $3,000 dollars per student more than the budget at the trough of the recession did. But this is like measuring the distance from the bottom of a grave to the top of the pile of dirt that will fill it back in. The proposed budget does not make California’s scho
The extra funding for schools this year is enough to get us out of the hole, but falls well short of providing what California's schools need. We list a few of the improvements our schools need--things that people in most other states just take for granted.
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