Invest in schools again

By Emily Cagape, San Francisco | 4/01/2021

Regarding “Teacher protests put GOP on the spot in red states” (Nation, April 5): Increasing education funding is essential to teachers and schools. It is great to see so many teacher protests across red states like Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona because of poor public education funding. However, let us not forget that poor education funding is not limited just to Republican states. Most people don’t know that California — one of the most Democratic states in the nation — is actually on par with several of these red states in education funding. We are consistently ranked within the bottom 10 states even though California used to lead the nation in education funding during the 1960s. Now is the time to finally tackle the root of California’s education problem: Proposition 13. Reforming Prop. 13 is the best thing we can do to invest in our schools again.