Brown stretches switch to funding reform - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
In the first of what will likely be multiple revisions – Finance Reform 1.01 – the Brown administration has scaled back the first year of phasing in its new school funding system and proposes to hold districts harmless from potential losses in revenue in that initial year. The administration also has significantly lowered the base revenue [...]
Vital student programs may be sacrified on the altar of flexibility - by Jim Aschwanden
Over the past few weeks, several articles have appeared in TOP-Ed (here and here) identifying programs that have been threatened by the governor’s latest budget proposal. Gov. Brown would dramatically overhaul current funding for education in California by instituting a pupil-based formula prioritizing districts with high-poverty and English language learner populations, while eliminating virtually [...]
