History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
A good night for schools, all in all
- 11-03-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Supporters of public schools will soon have a governor who intricately knows how schools work. And, with the victory of Proposition 25, starting next year they will finally get a state budget that will be passed on time. What they didn’t get in Tuesday’s election was more education money; to the contrary, in passing a proposition requiring a two-thirds vote to raise state and local fees (Prop 26) and a measure further preventing the state from raiding local revenues (Prop 22), voters may make it harder to come up with additional money to prevent further cuts to school budgets next year. But all in all, not a bad Election Night for K-12 education. Governor-elect Jerry Brown’s education platform, which he helped write, showed an understanding of education finance and governance, as well as issues related to training and developing teachers. He’s not a faddist; he avoided promoting the simple-sounding solutions that Meg Whitman proposed, like assigning single-letter grades to every school. (more…)
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