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California School Funding

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California's Prop 30 Funds May Not Actually Go To Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.03.2013 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO -- When a majority of California voters approved Proposition 30 last year, they did so under the assumption that the $6.8 billion per ye...

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California's School System Braces For Major Overhaul

The Contra Costa Times | Theresa Harrington and Steve Harmon | Posted 03.05.2013 | San Francisco
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SACRAMENTO -- In what promises to be one of his most significant policy moves this year, Gov. Jerry Brown will pursue a sweeping overhaul of the way C...

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California Governor Pushes School Funding Overhaul

The Sacramento Bee | Kevin Yamamura | Posted 02.25.2013 | Home
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After California schools eliminated art programs and increased class sizes to survive budget cuts, they are finally on the verge of getting more money...

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State's Bid For Federal Education Grant Rejected By Department Of Education

| John Fensterwald and Kathy Baron | Posted 01.26.2012 | Home
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This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. In another cockfight between...

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California Has One Of Nation's Widest Gaps In Hispanic-White Reading Proficiency

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.26.2011 | Home
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This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the second of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students ...

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Spending Among CA School Districts Wildly Uneven

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Louis Freedberg and Stephen K. Doig | Posted 08.03.2011 | Los Angeles
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State lawmakers have struggled for decades to bring equality to how school districts are funded, yet some districts receive thousands more per student...

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