We need parents to rise to the challenge as well. Our children's needs cannot exceed our willingness or capacity to provide for them, not in a community with our enormous resources. The PTA pledges to set forth more clearly the patterns of contribution, the condition of California's public education and our children's actual program costs, so that parents can make informed decisions. California nationally ranks 40th to 50th in the quality of its public education, depending upon what is measured. Its spending per student is 41st out of 50.
State taxes buy a poor education.
Webster has 3 additional sources of funding. If it is not renewed, nurses, libraries and other core programs will be cut. We expect to raise the remainder through other fund-raisers. If not, it won't. Then we will cut programs.