Claw back on union goodies in California

The question stems from a deal on education funding and policy that was at the heart of the larger budget deal.

Gov. Brown and the Democrats undertook a manuever that attempted to lower the constitutional education funding guarantee, first approved by voters as Prop 98 in 1988.

In return for not challenging this legally questionable act, teachers' unions won a variety of new concessions on education policy, including legislation that prevents teacher layoffs -- legislation so inflexible that local school boards are howling NBC

Court battles.