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:

Taking on charter schools in California through the Legislature

With Governor Newsom open to exploring the role of charters on the California education landscape, a new wave of legislation has been proposed to restrict or reduce the role of charters across the state.  The pro-charter movement in the state played a large role in the 2018 election.  In the gubernotrial primary, charter supporters gave $23 million to pro-charter candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, who failed to make it in to the top 2 spots for the general election.  They also spent an estimated $36 million to support pro-charter candidate Marshall Tuck for State Superintendent of Education.  Tuck lost narrowly to Tony Thurmond.  Now, with Newsom and Thurmond in place, legislators are working on bills that rethink the charter movement: