For years public school families in California have been poorly treated by elected officials. That’s because they haven’t had political muscle. Fortunately that’s changing.
EdVoice, led by long time schools champion and good friend Marshall Tuck, pursues education reform at the state level of government where funding, curriculum, credentialing, staffing, school structure and accountability are determined. Without organizations like EdVoice, state lawmakers are influenced primarily by providers and other special interests that focus on capturing the state’s spending on K-12 education — $133 billion this fiscal year — on terms that all too often don’t coincide with treating the state’s 5.8 million K-12 students as customers deserving of high quality services. That’s why California’s K-12 system continues to fail millions of California kids.
We are EdVoice supporters and hope you will be too. Unlike families with the means to attend a private school or the luck to attend a charter school, the vast majority of families in California have no choice but to send their kids to a public school. Let’s all help them to build political muscle. You can support EdVoice’s political action committee here.
