Education News – Julia Lawrence
“Although 80% of California residents oppose the trigger cuts that will strip their state’s education system of $5 billion in funding, the passage of the tax plan proposed by the governor Jerry Brown that would avoid these cuts is by no means guaranteed. A new poll of 2,000 likely voters released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 54% are in favor of a plan that will raise income tax on the top earners as well as temporarily increase the sales tax.”(more)