Proposition 59 gives voters a chance to tell their own member of Congress to get big money out of politics and support an amendment to the United States Constitution to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Similar measures have passed in Colorado and Montana by three-to-one margins. Money Talks In the 2014 congressional […]
Read MoreRepair our rundown schools: YES on Prop 51
It’s been a decade since California passed our last statewide school bond to repair and upgrade our public schools. That’s 10 years of students from kindergarten to college attempting to learn in schools crumbling around them. Libraries, science labs, classrooms – you name it – California schools are in dire need of an upgrade.
Read MoreProp 55 Prevents School Cuts, Keeps California Moving in Right Direction
California’s comeback from the brink of financial ruin during the Great Recession is one of the greatest success stories in a generation. While states like Kansas and Wisconsin responded to budgetary uncertainty by cutting education funding with disastrous results, California voters took a different approach, enacting Prop 30 in 2012 to boost school funding to shrink class sizes, hire teachers, bolster community colleges and fund children’s health care.
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