Newsom’s education plans wrongly focuses on spending rather than reform

In his budget proposal last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed massive new investments in California’s public-school and community college systems, including $900 million in teacher recruitment, $1.2 billion in local-control funding, $350 million in grants for teacher training, $900 million for special education, $32 million for all-day preschool and hundreds of millions more for programs in low-performing districts and for after-school programs.
Unfortunately, Newsom – as we