Do Your Part

Recently a group of twenty civic and education advocacy organizations wrote a letter to Governor Jerry Brown asking him to repeal three provisions of AB 114. This last-minute piece of legislation signed by the Governor prohibits school districts from cutting programs or personnel to balance their shrinking budgets and proposes decreasing instructional time by up to seven days should the state fall short of projected revenues. AB 114's restrictions could lead to California being a state with one of the shortest school years in the nation.