Prop. 3 would make permanent the income tax surcharge on tax filers earning more than $176,000.
Author Archives: John Fensterwald, EdSource
John Fensterwald, staff writer, joined EdSource in 2012. Before that, he was editor and co-writer for The Educated Guess website, a leading source of California education policy reporting and opinion, which he founded in 2009. For 11 years before then, John wrote editorials for the Mercury News in San Jose, with a focus on education. He worked as a reporter, news editor and opinion editor for three newspapers in New Hampshire before receiving a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. His wife is a retired elementary school teacher, and their daughter is a neurologist who received her training at UC Davis Medical School and her residency at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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California Teachers Association sues state over $3.9B owed to schools
CTA claims the state violated Proposition 98, the voter-approved formula that determines the portion of state revenue that goes to education.
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How three bills to close California’s student achievement gap ran aground
The California School Boards Association sought to raise the visibility of closing the achievement gap through the Legislature.
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Equity advocates to ask California court to suspend billions in school construction funding
Plaintiffs in Rodriguez v. State of California argue that the state’s match for modernizing schools denies low-wealth districts a fair share of funding.
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Why California education leaders are relieved and frustrated by Newsom’s budget
The governor included $1.7 billion in his allocation to K-12 and community colleges, but is keeping $3.9 billion until next year.