Brown’s School Budget Reform Embraced, Exploited

San José Mercury News article about parent and student involvement in review of local school spending plans targeting services for English learners, foster youth and low-income students Bay Area communities.

Public Advocates staff attorney Rigel Massaro quoted:

“Rigel Massaro, an attorney with Public Advocates, says that schools should be held to the goals they set — for example, promising to improve literacy rates by 5 percent annually. That, however, may run counter to Brown’s insistence on local control.”

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