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Sunday, October 23, 2011

CA School Finance 101 Wrap-Up

CA School Finance 101 Wrap-Up:

CA School Finance 101 Wrap-Up

Ask any parent casting an uneasy eye on state budget cuts and the ballooning class sizes, shrinking programs, and dwindling resources devoted to her child at the local neighborhood school, and you’re likely to find a high-quality curriculum and school funding worries at the top of her list of concerns.

Note: I said “a high quality curriculum and school funding worries,” not “pensions,” “tenure,” or any number of things well-funded “ed reformers” say are top priorities.

With anxieties about school funding in mind, K12NN along with Parents for Great Education and the California Budget Project, together launched an event that helped inform about 75 parent leaders, school administrators,