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On April 2, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Diversity released its first issue brief on K-12 education, “Getting Beyond the Facts: Reforming California School Finance.” This brief offers a proposal for reforming school finance in California with an interest in “a simpler, fairer, and more coherent system of school finance … that is responsive to student needs and regional costs.”
Noting that California’s school finance system has become so unwieldy and irrational that basic issues of fairness and institutional design can no longer be addressed, this brief proposes a new framework in which issues of equity, adequacy, and local flexibility can be clearly debated and thoughtfully resolved. Further, with substantial new money for education projected to become available over the next five years, the brief argues that now is the time to plan the uses of those funds and that significant improvement in the finance system can be achieved with modest new investment.
The issue brief is jointly authored by former California Secretary of Education Alan Bersin, Stanford School of Education professor Michael W. Kirst, and UC Berkeley Law School professor Goodwin Liu.
Read the issue brief
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