Voter Guide: Whitman, Brown differ on education
By Stephanie Rice/California Watch
Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown both say reforming the state’s beleaguered education system is a top priority, but they have very different proposals for getting there. California Watch has been tracking every statement, promise, prediction and deflection by Whitman and Brown over at Politics Verbatim. This post is the last in a series that is using those records to lay out each candidate's stance on a specific issue in detail. On K-12 education: The candidates agree that the state’s bureaucratic funding system, currently broken into 60 categories, needs to be streamlined to make sure the money is spent efficiently. From there, they start to diverge. (more…)