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
State's fiscal peril drives $4.5 billion schools reform
- 09-30-2010
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By Fermin Leal and Scott Martindale/Orange County Register
A revolution is brewing that could shift control of billions in public education dollars from the state to local districts – the most fundamental change in how schools are funded since the state took charge of the system 32 years ago. Both Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman are calling for it. Parents and local educators demand it. Even Sacramento legislators tacitly acknowledge it must happen and have begun laying the seeds for it. It's all about $12 billion scattered across dozens of pots of money – up to a third of all state school funding – that carry myriad strings limiting their use to such efforts as special education, nutrition or school safety. (more…)
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