Call for one tax on November ballot - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Later this week, Gov. Jerry Brown will get a letter from education and business leaders worried about the prospect of multiple tax initiatives in November. Their message: The only hope for addition to revenue is subtraction on the ballot. But in calling for Brown to persuade sponsors of various proposed initiatives to coalesce around one initiative, [...]
A blank check to Sacramento would be a Dickens of a bad deal - by Arun Ramanathan
Back when I was working in schools in New England, we had snow days. In California, our kids have “budget cut days.” Unlike the snow days, there’s no surprise or joy to them and they never get made up. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever. For those kids who need them the most, like the hundreds of thousands of students in our state who are learning English, the learning time is irretrievably lost. This November, California voters are going to be asked to vote for ballot [...]
