The measure would have directed more than $617 million in funding to the state's schools, with about half going toward special education reimbursement and the other half toward offsetting property taxes by increasing general school aids.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s is proposing to target unexpected billions of dollars from surging state revenues to the priorities that school district leaders had prized.
The education secretary and Democrats on the House education committee tussled over caps on federal student loans, what role the government should play in trying to improve abysmal literacy rates —and whether the U.S. Department of Education should exist at all.
