The flow of private donations to largely small districts
serving wealthy parents will continue despite the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula championed by Gov. Jerry Brown and approved by the Legislature in June.
For the sake of our children, for whom a quality education is the key to a bright future; for the sake of our
parents, who want only the best for their children; and for the sake of our educators who dedicate their lives to the noble task of teaching, we must now take our energies and moral high ground to demand that our leaders vote for a budget that
serves the majority of the American people, not the
wealthy few.»
If students and
parents are to have real choices, shuffling urban students between struggling schools in their city is not a satisfactory answer — they must be able to «choose» the predominately white and
wealthy schools
serving suburban property owners as well.