REASONS NOT TO SIGN GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN'S TAX INITIATIVE PETITION
(For a national view of public education reform see the end of this blog post)
In the bleak reality of coordinated political and corporate siege against public education, one is tempted to grasp at straws in trying to stop this continued onslaught against teachers and the ever worsening degradation of the essential democracy formative institution of
public education.
While one would hope that Governor Jerry Brown might throw us a lifeline in our struggle to salvage what was once the great public education system that his father Edmund G. "Pat" Brown left us, a close analysis of Jerry Brown's proposed tax initiative finds it hopeless lacking. Check out the following reasons we think so:
The negative consequences of the initiative for public education funding are not obvious or easily discernible. Highly convoluted language will be locked into the California Constitution and not one word of it can