California Think Tank Releases Report Criticizing Governor's Education Funding Plan

The Sacramento (CA) Bee (10/30, Walters) reports, "Gov. Jerry Brown has been seeking implementation of a 'weighted student formula' that would give more school money to districts with high levels of poverty and other educational impediments and low levels of achievement. But the proposal has been a hard sell in the Legislature, because districts that would lose money under the redistribution plan are opposed." Meanwhile, "Brown's proposal, which has never been fully fleshed out, is now receiving flak from another source, Education Trust-West, an education think tank based in Oakland." The white paper is in favor of a weighted formula, but takes issue with specifics in Brown's plan.