[Still Thinking]

This is why statewide funding is a bad idea. That it even raises the possibility of more soak-the-rich social engineering is unacceptable to me, whether it actually happens or not. If low income areas do badly, well, we must not have sufficiently looted the high income areas as yet. More income redistribution will solve the problem. If we have too much disparity in incomes, lets just punish those who have done well, until there is no longer any reason to do well. Then everyone will be the same. Voila, a workers' paradise!

[p. henry]

My recollection is that the CA Supreme Court ruled quite some time ago that public funding disparities among school districts are unconstitutional. Of course, that case challenged the ability of Beverly Hills, for example, to more fully fund its schools than a district in which property values are lower. How ironic if that decision were now to prevent the state from allocating proportionately more resources to be poured down the rathole of underperforming inner city schools. As a parent of a 9th grader attending a CA high school that had 27 national merit finalists last year but also has Algebra classes with more than 35 students, I'm certainly not in favor allocating even more resources away from students who actually study.