Education

By John P. MacMurray

Adequate funding

And it does this while serving the educational needs of over 6 million students and their families, who speak nearly sixty languages from Albanian to Pashto to Vietnamese. And although the K-12 budget is large, around $6 billion, its funding is uncertain. Funding it one year at a time makes long range planning nearly impossible, wasting time and money.

So, California's educators are being required to meet higher mandated test standards for more students from more diverse backgrounds who have more needs, with fewer and uncertain resources.

Let's take this opportunity to bring in new funding ideas so our educators can finally have the rest of the tools they will need to produce our future leaders.