Will Jerry Brown Rescue Public Education?

NBC Bay Area

The election is over, and yes, California has a new governor--well, actually a previous governor back for another turn.

Jerry Brown will return to the state's highest office but in a radically different political setting. Term limits, federal mandates, and tough requirements for raising taxes have created a political environment that makes it almost impossible for any governor to govern, yet that is what Brown must do.

Brown re-enters the office under conditions similar to those encountered by his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger: fiscal crisis. To some, this almost sounds like the boy who cried wolf--surely we must have solved the revenue and spending problem
by now.

But we haven't. Current projections show California about $15 billion in the red for the new fiscal year, perhaps more. This after several years of draconian cutbacks.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 9, 2010 1:05 AM
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