It’s not business, it’s personal
Bringing the budget cuts home to make them real
It’s a measure of how worried and angry people are that nearly a hundred parents, students, educators, and policy makers gave up their Saturday to learn just how badly schools will be hit under Gov. Brown’s all-cuts budget, due out today, and to discuss some of the not-so popular solutions. Hoi Yung Poon, executive director and founder of Parents for Great Education, who organized the event, worried needlessly that “no one would show up.” The 21st Century Education Summit at De Anza College in Cupertino drew Silicon Valley Congressman Mike Honda and San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting. A group of Chinese American moms drove down from San Francisco with an interpreter, a parent organizer came up from Los Angeles, and a community college trustee flew in from Orange County.
Facing down Prop 13
Most speakers challenged the belief that extending the tax increases is the only way to solve