Brown gets few offers of help from education leaders
Jerry Brown is calling on Californians to come together to resolve the state's deepening budget crisis, but he got a heavy dose of how difficult that will be at the forum he hosted in Los Angeles yesterday focused on education financing.
Although their tone was conciliatory, school superintendents and union leaders reminded Brown, over and over again, of all the ways K-12 schools have borne the brunt of the budget cuts over the past three years, and presented ominous scenarios should they be cut any further.
Joel Shapiro, South Pasadena superintendent of schools, asked Brown to be courageous in defending what
