Polls, Polls – What Do They Mean?
Yesterday, two polls came out certain to warm Governor Jerry Brown as both polls by the Public Policy Institute of California and the California Business Roundtable/Pepperdine Public Policy School support his school funding policy and the budget he presented to the legislature. But what exactly do these polls represent? The question arises because the Roundtable/Pepperdine […]
LA County Businesses Decry Unfriendly Business Climate
With no clear end in sight to the region’s unfriendly business climate, LA County business owners and executives are less optimistic about the economy this year, but they are working to adapt to long-term stagnation in employment and growth, according to a new survey by the Los Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed). The latest BizFed […]
How Dare You Call Californians Flaky?
As a rule, Californians shouldn’t have too many East Coast friends, and we should never listen too closely to the ones we do have. East Coasters know little about California but fancy they know a lot. In their eyes, we are sun-bathing, Kardashian-marrying airheads. Above all—and this slur has been popular for almost 50 years—we […]
K-12 Funding Formula Would Generate New Per-Pupil Spending Disparities
California Common Sense (CACS) released a brief analyzing Governor Brown’s proposed Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which if enacted, would alter the way California distributes state funding to K-12 school districts and charter schools. The overhaul would largely eliminate “categorical,” earmarked spending for state-mandated programs. The formula would apply more weight to districts with higher […]