Tackling education funding and income inequality through policy

In California State Senator Nancy Skinner of Berkeley has proposed a new corporate tax that will raise taxes based on the pay gap between executive staff and their employees.  The additional tax revenue would be used to fund early childhood education and other education programs in the state.  

Repeat Offenders Make Millions of Taxpayers Through Charters

The latest story of charter operators profiting from taxpayers comes from the Los Angeles Times.  Clark and Jeanette Parker quietly siphoned off taxpayer dollars by renting their own property for charter schools and approving their own actions.  The two most striking takeaways from this story for me were: