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Public schools: A return to ‘haves’ v. ‘have nots’?
- 06-28-2010
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By Dennis Wyatt/Manteca Bulletin
California’s public education could be moving toward another crisis that could ultimately undermine local control. The stage is being set, ironically, by school districts where voters have passed parcel taxes so far in order to counter state funding cutbacks. Sixteen of the 20 districts that had parcel tax elections so far this year managed to reach the two-thirds approval threshold. John Rogers the head of the UCLA Institute for Democracy was quoted by the Associated Press as noting the votes are simply widening the disparity between districts adding, “Across the state, the pain is felt everywhere, but because of the unequal distribution of wealth some areas are able to respond.” (more...)
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