A New School Funding Measure; Trouble for the Split Roll?
The school establishment is clearly nervous about the viability of the split roll tax increase plan. The California School Board Association is testing the chances of another tax measure for the 2020 ballot that could provide school funding. This measure would take the tried-and-true method of seeking voter approval by taxing “someone else” and avoiding […]
A Slow Motion Tax Reform?
Are Gov. Newsom and the Democrats pursuing a tax reform without actually declaring it? Conventional wisdom is that a big tax reform is impossible politically. It’s just too big a target for too many interests. Gov. Brown seem well positioned to pursue such a reform, but openly admitted that it was too heavy a lift […]
Are special interests blocking housing reforms? Or is public opposition?
Should land owners be able to put up small apartment buildings in single-family areas? A powerful state senator says no. The belief that California has a profound housing crisis took hold in the state’s media and political establishments in recent years after Census Bureau statistics showed the Golden State had the highest effective rate of […]
Teach For America, not California
Assembly Bill 221 in California would prohibit school districts from entering into a contract with a third-party organization that employs teachers “who commit to teaching in the organization for less than five years.” This is an obvious bullet aimed at Teach For America, whose name was invoked but then removed from an earlier version of […]