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School finance primer: Courts and ballot initiatives helped create complex finance system
- 08-27-2010
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By Donna Jones/Santa Cruz Sentinel
If you had to describe California's system of funding public schools in one word, you might pick: complicated. The system is the product of nearly four decades of court battles, voter initiatives and political tinkering. The state is the principle financier of public schools, a role that's given it a major voice in what goes on in the classroom.
That wasn't always the case. A little history. (more…)
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