Pressing education problems dividing California Democrats
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PRINTFor years — even decades — the political equation on California public education has been engraved in stone.
Democrats lined up with the California Teachers Association and other elements of the education establishment to contend that spending more money would be the pathway to improving test scores, dropout rates and other indices of educational attainment.
Republicans, meanwhile, argued that spending more money wouldn’t improve outcomes and that public schools needed competition — either more charter schools or vouchers for private schools — and a crackdown on incompetent teachers.
Recently, however, the equation has been changing. The Democratic-establishment coalition is
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