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A lawsuit for adequate education funding, Proposition 13 and more
- 05-27-2010
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By Lisa Schiff/San Francisco Beyond Chron
The lawsuit California public school supporters have been waiting for is finally here. Last Thursday a coalition of individuals, school districts (including the San Francisco Unified School District) and educational organizations announced the filing of the California School Finance lawsuit, which has the goal of entirely refashioning public education funding in California. While public school families and educators are well aware of the insufficiency of funding levels at our schools, the complex method of distributing resources is an equal factor contributing to the problems the state’s public education system faces. As a recent Public Policy Institute of California report details, California’s public school finance system is impossible to understand and leads to a variety of inequities, despite efforts to remove them. This finding echoes a similar conclusion drawn in the much cited 2005 Getting Down To Facts report commissioned by Governor Schwarzenegger in which researchers found that not only were funding levels inadequate, but the funding system itself serves as a barrier to fully use of funds and requires a complete overhaul. (more...)
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