The open letter is too complicated for the Cal legislature

An Open Letter To California’s Senate Education Committee

The Senate Education Committee hasn’t even scheduled a discussion about a crisis in the state’s K-12 education system. The Sacramento City Unified School District, which serves 42,000 students in the state’s capital city, has sent layoff notices to teachers and other staff to address a deficit. As the Sacramento Bee has pointed out in a series of articles, SacCity’s deficit is in large part the result of destructive financial practices that the legislature could — and should — prohibit. Just two common-sense reforms could close SacCity’s gap. Those same destructive financial practices are contributing to financial problems across the K-12 system despite a 60 percent increase in state spending on schools since 2010. If California schools are reducing staff in the tenth year of a bull market and after a 30 percent income tax increase, just imagine how they will act in a recession.

The Senate has no idea they are supposed to fix this.  As they understand their job, Gavin deals with unions and tell the badly educated Senate what to do.