Brown faces challenge in keeping education promises
By Louis Freedberg/California Watch
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown will face substantial challenges in implementing many parts of his education platform, arguably the most detailed of any California governor in recent memory. The platform received little attention during the election campaign. Instead, most discussion of education centered on charges made by Meg Whitman that Brown drove Oakland schools into bankruptcy, an assertion vigorously rejected by Brown and most independent observers. Brown in turn charged that Whitman would cut billions from the K-12 education system if elected, a charge Whitman also rejected. (more…)