Down The Rabbit Hole: Education Funding Meltdown
Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to put the future of California’s budget in the hands of the voters has failed; failed to persuade just any four Republicans in the legislature to let the voters have a say; failed to find a legal loophole that would get the measure on the ballot without a super-majority vote in either house of the legislature; and failed despite extensive negotiations. You can’t negotiate with the new American Taliban. Not on education funding. Not on healthcare. And not on any program that does not fit into their narrowly defined agenda, which, at its core, is more about destroying the mechanisms of governance that it is about adapting them to the changing realities of the 21st century economy.The impact of this impasse on public education is the subject of much
