An interesting thread runs between these articles.
This article from Katy Murphy at the Oakland Tribune looking at how budget cuts will impact school layoffs, as new teachers get fired first in a "last-in, first-out" process.
And this article, by Wyatt Buchanan at the SF Chronicle, details how a new bill in the CA state senate would let school districts raise taxes within their own districts.
What's the thread? Equity. Head Start - and the prison system - enrolls primarily non-White, socio-economically disadvantaged people. Urban schools with high numbers of new teachers tend to serve the same population. And suburban school districts with high income earners will be more likely to vote for further taxes to support their schools than those with lower income earners (ex: what happened with last year's voting in Berkeley and El Cerrito on the same issue).
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