Steven Greenhut on the governor: partying on the Titanic
January 08, 2010 Filed in:
Budget & Finance
| Unions
Steven Greenhut, The Orange County Register
(Updated March 22, 2010)
But the state's education budget also is filled with waste. The
state spends 40 percent of its general fund on K-12 education, and
yet many of California's school systems are almost criminally
mismanaged and assure lifelong failure for the poorest students –
thanks in large measure to union work rules and protections for
incompetent, even abusive, teachers. The governor's proposed
constitutional amendment will never come to pass, and, even if it
did, it wouldn't do a thing other than create a legal mechanism to
further expand school spending...