State has enormous resources with problems to match.
Has a shrinking tax base. Pays a high price for social experimentation with reading, math, science curriculum. Pace-setting reforms were made meaningless and derailed by tidal waves of illegal immigrants clogging limited educational resources. When I entered teaching in California in 1955, we had a first-rate public education system that was the envy of all the other states,' says Claire Pelton, now an associate director in charge of advanced placement at the College Board. The act shifted the funding burden to the state by capping local property taxes and reducing by more than half the amount of local revenues available for education and other public services.