Brea : School Board Seeks State Initiative on Financing

The Brea-Olinda Unified District school board has passed a resolution urging “a statewide initiative” to “provide stable, long-term funding for public schools and . . . end the politicizing of the public education programs.”

The board’s resolution said the school district “is extremely concerned about the status of public school finance and the inability of the state Legislature and the governor of California to plan, write and implement (adequate) finance legislation.”

The resolution didn’t specify who should lead efforts for a proposed statewide initiative on changing state financing for education. But the measure called for some form of change in the law, by initiative, that would “give California the opportunity to fund programs for its pupils in line with its leadership expectations and the amount of growth in state income.”

The resolution criticized Gov. George Deukmejian, saying that his state budget “violates the intent of the lottery initiative” because lottery money was not intended to replace state money for support of education.