The 60 percent increase in Kindergarten through 12th grade spending in California’s schools, just since 2011 hasn’t made a difference in student performance. And it’s apparent the money isn’t making it into the classroom. The three large school district’s teachers have held strikes because of this: “Los Angeles, Oakland and Sacramento have gone on strike because so little of that extra money is going to them,” David Crane recently reported. Crane is now a lecturer in Public Policy at Stanford University and president of Govern for California, and served as a special adviser to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger 2004-2010.
