EDUCATION IS NOT A CENTRAL ISSUE in California’s crowded governor’s race, but the candidates addressing it offer sharply different visions, from expanding school funding and free college, to stricter teacher accountability and restrictions on transgender students in sports.
The next governor would follow a predecessor who made education a priority, increasing K-12 per-pupil funding by 61%, investing in community schools, expanding universal transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds, providing free school meals for all students, adding more after-school and summer programs, funding teacher recruitment efforts and approving legislation that changed how children are taught how to read.
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