If K-12 school “categorical” programs were deregulated as described in my other post on this topic, it would be equivalent to a tax increase of $1,195 per student ($7.4 billion / 6,190,425 students statewide).
The PPIC poll should have asked “would you prefer relaxing funding mandates that would save $1,195 per student or would you rather pay a parcel tax of about $300 per household per year?”
This “PP” poll is propaganda and it was not disclosed who funded the poll.
Eliminating categoricals makes sense. Which is why our majority party in California will never go for it. But the polls always ask leading questions to prompt a particular response. More than a decade ago, the Washington Post had an article titled “You answer right, if we ask right” which speaks to this very phenomenon.
For example:
“Do you think we ought to send money to feed poor kids in foreign country X”... Response: Yes, of course.
“Do you think we ought to send money to feed poor kids in foreign country X or should we keep the money at home and fund more school lunches”... Response: Don’t send money abroad, keep it at home.