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Category: California

  • Tech Execs Buy Better Public Schools— For Their Towns.

    A recent article in EdSource covers the funding inequality between school districts created by “Basic Aid” Districts. I’ve written about funding inequality in Solidarity News before (SN Oct 2024, 2022…

  • Waiting for ‘We Can’t Wait’

    We Can’t Wait, an alliance of fourteen CA locals, is a great idea— but it’s not clear how much real life it has in it.  The East Bay districts that…

  • A Statewide Strike in 2025? Here’s How it Could Happen

    Picture this: educators from San Diego to San Jose, LA to Sacramento, all at once taking to the streets and withholding our labor, demanding the conditions and wages we’ve been…

  • We Can’t Wait Campaign off to a Rainy Start: Is the gloom just in the weather?

    The CTA-led “We Can’t Wait” campaign in the Bay Area got started with a rally in Oakland’s downtown Oscar Grant Plaza onTuesday, February 4. Near-constant and occasionally heavy rain had…

  • Counted Out: film and math politics review: Can we achieve personal fulfillment and save the world by just learning algebra?

    “Counted Out” is is a very well-intentioned, sweet film about the importance of math education. Unfortunately, it is at root fatally misguided, and thereby damaging to both education and equality.…

  • AFT MEMBERS: Sign petition for Palestine divestment

    https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aft-and-the-us-arms-embargo-an-open-letter-to

  • Class Size– Again

    The CACS “We Can’t Wait” campaign has reducing class size as one of its demands (article on 11/26). We thought it wold be useful to repost this article from our…

  • CACS Campaign: “We Can’t Wait”

    Readers likely have not yet have heard of the “We Can’t Wait” campaign, or CACS, the organization whose campaign it is – but if all goes well, both will be…

  • CalCare Update

    CalCare is the Medicare-for-all initiative sponsored by the California Nurses Union CNA. We teachers know what a difference quality healthcare would make in our classroom – we’ve all had kids…

  • Unequal School Bonds

    Last February, Public Advocates sued the state of California because the current school facilities bonds facilitates inequality between poorer and wealthier districts. From their filing: .  “California’s system of funding…

  • “Basic Aid”

    How can different school districts spend such different amounts of money per student when LCFF funding from the state of California is the same for each student, with supplemental money…

  • Is School Funding Equal?

                Look at This!   Expenditure data is from SARC reports filed with CDE We are told that school funding in California is equal, but…

  • #16 ‘Health Care for All’ Suppressed in State Assembly

    Educators for Single-Payer, a group of California union educators organizing for healthcare justice as a public education issue, is profoundly disappointed in the decision by Appropriations Committee Chair Buffy Wicks…

  • #15 Parcel Taxes: Unequal by Design

    Parcel taxes are the only way for California school districts to get additional tax funding beyond their allocation from the state. Parents, and educators want more money for schools— and…

  • #15 Cuts at OUSD and WCCUSD—The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Again

    Many news outlets (S.F. Chronicle, Mercury News, Cal Matters, ABC, NBC, Oaklandside and more) are running articles about the deficits of many school districts, most prominently OUSD, WCCUSD, and SFUSD. …