Governor Jerry Brown led a successful campaign to raise taxes to fund the state’s public schools and universities.
His Proposition 30 passed with heavy support from Los Angeles County.
Had it not passed, the cuts to education would have been devastating.
Hats off to Governor Brown and Superintendent Tom Torlakson for fighting to increase taxes to pay for educating the state’s children.
Due to prior anti-tax activism, California is now 47th in the nation in education spending.
Proposition 32, which was intended to hobble labor unions’ political activities by eliminating automatic dues checkoff for political contributions, was defeated.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
It’s great news. It’s not new money, but it removes the $457 trigger cut that most districts had to build into their budget for this year, and it also means that some of those IOUs that have been so damaging to cash flow will get funded. Woo!
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Governor Brown has a history of redirecting money earmarked for education. I hope there is a watchdog committee to oversee how this money is spent.
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Diane. Thanks again for hanging in there last night with us in CA and for providing encouragement on Prop 30 . We dodged a bullet.
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