Did you ever see this column by Jill Stewart?
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/election/clueless-california-voters-fai/
No I didn’t, but you can’t expect to have an aware populace, if the Democrats are going to by default be give the sole task of educating the adults in the state.
Every election comes around, the RP Leadership is almost mute, and the Democrats are left spreading false impressions about whether education gets enough funds or not.
If asked, I’d be surprised if the majority of the populace knew that K-12 got more than 7 or 8% the state budget. Further, I’d be surprised if they didn’t think the poor in the state get next to nothing, that illegal immigrants are the ones treated unfairly, and that the middle class whites in the state get unfair advantage.