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Poll: Dedicated tax with ed reforms is winner | Thoughts on Public Education

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Poll: Dedicated tax with ed reforms is winner - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

A new poll has confirmed what Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, and others in the 2012 Kids Education Plan coalition expected: An initiative coupling school reforms with a tax increase dedicated to education has a good chance of winning at the polls a year from now. The qualifiers are important. Less than a majority of [...]

Voters want more of what they won’t pay for: stronger higher education - by David Plank

The latest PPIC poll on higher education in California was released last month, and the findings will bring no cheer to our state’s public colleges and universities. On the bright side, most respondents affirm that a strong higher education system is important for California’s future, and they agree that recent budget [...]