Jerry Brown and Molly Munger both want to raise taxes to help schools - - but differ on approach
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
If Gov. Jerry Brown and civil rights attorney Molly Munger agree on one thing, it's that California needs to raise taxes to give schools more money.
Voters who share that view now have to consider two distinctly different paths devised to accomplish the goal.
On the November ballot, the tax hike with the most votes should prevail if both succeed, though courts would likely have to sort out which parts of each initiative survive.
Munger's initiative, Proposition 38, would radically upend a school-financing approach that state officials and local districts have long practiced. The measure would generate $10 billion annually
