logo

Tag: localcontrolfundingformula

US Politics

A Noble Betrayal: How California's School Funding Experiment Failed Its Children and Its Principles

A landmark Stanford University study finds California's decade-old school funding reform, championed by Governor Jerry Brown based on 'subsidiarity,' has failed due to poor accountability and fragmented governance, producing unclear guidance and burdensome systems. This is a heartbreaking betrayal of California's most vulnerable students, a noble experiment squandered by bureaucratic incompetence and a willful disregard for the rule of law and effective governance.