Annotated Bibliography #1

Brown, Crystal. "Vote Twice for Education Over Politics." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 14 Aug. 2012. Web. 15 Sept. 2012. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/crystal-brown/vote-twice-for-education-over-politics_b_1774101.html>.

In this article Crystal Brown talks about how people have initiated a “false competition” between the Proposition 30 and Proposition 38.  As Brown states it, “Proposition 30 provides approximately $8 billion, much of which is restitution funding for K-12 education, public colleges, and universities and new funds for pubic safety. Proposition 38 could provide $10 billion per year in new funding for K-12 education and preschool, including funds to offset some education funding losses triggered by the potential failure of Prop 30.” People look at these two propositions and look at the pros and cons of each of them. However, what they need to do is put their focus on the ultimate goal, which is to improve California’s educational system. If you vote yes on one of the propositions and no on another, it could divide the vote and make it so neither of the propositions are able to win. If the vote is divided then neither proposition will win. The Huffington Post is a pretty reliable source and Crystal Brown is the Board President and co-founder of Educate Our State.

Freeman, Bill. "News." U-T San Diego. U-T San Diego News, 23 Sept. 2012. Web. 24 Sept. 2012. <http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/23/tp-prop-30-invests-in-education-economy/>.

Bill Freeman describes a lot of the statistics about the budget cuts to the schooling system in California in the recent years. California ranks 48^th in teacher to student ratio, 50^th in librarians, counselors and nurse to student ratio and is 47^th in per pupil spending when we used to be in the top 10 states. Class sizes have increased and the numbers of school days have dropped and are continuing to drop. It is the only measure on the board that stops the devastating cuts and avoids some of the tuition raises. If this measure does not pass, schools will suffer even more cuts, which will result in less teachers, counselors, nurses and administration. Bill Freeman is a credible source because he is the president of a 7,000 member San Diego Education Association, He is a third grade teacher and was San Diego City teacher of the year in 2009-2010. Although he does have credibility he seems to have one of his facts wrong. Freeman says that “Under Prop. 30, families making below $500,000 a year will pay no additional income taxes.” when in fact it is family’s making $250,000 and below wont pay any addition income taxes. This mistake makes me question how correct his other statistics are.

 

 "Who's Funding Prop 30, Jerry Brown's Temporary Tax for Education and Guaranteed Public Safety Funding? | Propositions | Elections 2012 | KCET." KCET. KCET, 20 Sept. 2012. Web. 24 Sept. 2012. <http://www.kcet.org/news/ballotbrief/elections2012/propositions/database-whos-funding-prop-30-temporary-tax-to-fund-education.html>.

The Website KCET looks at all the funding behind Proposition 30. It was informative and interesting to see what corporate companies are supporting education and what people are against it. The Coca Cola Company donated over half a million dollars to this cause. The amount of money donated to Proposition 30 is considerably higher that the money running against it. The website seems credible partly because it is a dot org, however I cannot find an author or much more information about how the website got the figures that they have.