The Educated Guess � ‘Irrational, unstable and insufficient’ funding

The Educated Guess � ‘Irrational, unstable and insufficient’ funding

‘Irrational, unstable and insufficient’ funding

Posted in Uncategorized

The last time there was a school funding suit in California, a decade ago in the Williams case, Gov. Gray Davis spent millions hiring high-priced lawyers to battle it tooth and nail. Then Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor, and within months, settled the case, committing more textbooks, qualified teachers and school repairs for students in the lowest performing schools.
If the plaintiffs in the new funding suit filed Thursday, had a glimmer of hope that Schwarzenegger might do a reprise on his way out of office, he dispatched that notion hours after the suit was filed in Alameda Superior Court. “The Governor will oppose this lawsuit and believes the state will prevail,” a three-sentence statement from Bonnie Reiss, his secretary of education, began.

So Robles-Wong v California, which fully challenges the underpinnings of the state’s school financing system, will soon fall in the lap of the next governor, who