School Beat: The New School Year Begins with a BangLisa Schiffbyline‚ Aug. 28‚ 2008School doors opened for San Francisco’s youth this past Monday, commencing an academic year that promises to be full of significant challenges and equally significant opportunities to make changes for our city’s public school families and public education activists. For starters, California still has no budget and the wrangling up in Sacramento about where cuts will be made to get that budget passed can only leave the public education community worrying. The Governor just recently indicated he may tolerate the idea of the Democrats’ temporary 1% sales tax increase proposal. But, his true agenda remains unchanged, as evidenced by his manipulative threat to call another expensive, wasteful Special Election as a means to force his budgetary designs on us. |