In Silicon Valley where innovation, artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship reign, a recent study puts San Jose as a...
Manzo: A plea to fix California’s failed school funding model
As an educator with more than three decades of experience, including 16 years as a superintendent in the Bay Area, I’m deeply concerned about the crisis in California’s public schools. Recent school closures in the Bay Area serve as a stark reminder that the state’s education funding model is outdated and inequitable. California’s local control funding formula is designed to provide funding based on student demographics, but it fails to account for the high cost of living in certain regions. In places like the Bay Area, Los Angeles and other metropolitan centers, the operational costs of running schools are significantly...
