The situation in the sphere of the education improvement leaves much space for the development as far as k-12 education is concerned. The researchers of this field expressed their concern about standards of K-12 teaching. Despite the introduction of the reforms into the K-12 education in Florida that considerably advanced the academic standard, the reforms are crucial for the whole California due to its diverse population and the growing requirements of the parents (Lips, 2). To my mind, the most effective reforms turned out to be financial reform, the reform on improvement of the teaching stuff quality and implementation of student testing policy. These innovations pointed out the main weaknesses of k-12 education in California. The introduction of the school financial reform started in 1971 when the Court decided that the contrast between lower class pupils’ districts and the wealthy districts is enormous. That is why, the education financing would compensate this gap and improve the attitude to the educational process (Carrol, 4). The reform was quite appropriate since that not only ameliorated the teaching level; it also involved more pupils into the educational process and enlarged the material and educational base of the teaching institutions. Secondly, since the resources become equally available to both low- and high-wealth regions of California, it broadened the possibility for poor students. Thirdly, the finance schooling reform greatly contributed to the problem of taxes imposing. So far, the basis of k-12 funds was 60 % of local property taxes whereas the state provided 34 % only (Timar, 4). Currently, the financial system radically changed the tax ratio in favor of the population. Thus, 67 % of funding is directed from the state whereas the local taxation has significantly changed so that the money allocation is mostly controlled by the government but not by the local authority (Timar, 5). Finally, due to the fact that the population of California comprises a considerable part of immigrants, the centralization of the finance funding lessened the limitation for the immigrants and highered an average educational level in the district as they mostly belonged to the middle working layer of society. In addition, the finance reform created the united the fund for k-12 education thus establishing more incentives for the study and increasing the class size. As it can be viewed, the intervention of finance reform in the sphere of k-12 education development improved not only the level of academic achievements but also social status of poor and immigrant students. It goes without saying that the improvement of teaching stuff and the advancement of academic curriculum greatly deposited to the development K-12 schooling. First of all, the teaching skills do not presuppose the profound knowledge of material only but also imply the knowledge of pedagogy and the appropriate competence in treating the children of different age categories. Regarding that, pedagogy is crucial for all qualification levels of teaching and PhDs in particular since teacher should be aware of the challenges and opportunities the children may face in school. In this respect, they must comprehend the educational policy of local administration and follow the universally acc