Guest editorial: Rearranging the deck chairs on California’s sinking K-12 ship

As part of his budget proposal earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a new educational plan that sounds reasonable, as it streamlines regulatory authority and places more oversight in the governor’s office. Per Newsom’s statement, “California’s K-12 education system is being governed by a fragmented set of entities with overlapping roles that sometimes operate in conflict with one another, to the detriment of educational services offered to students.”

The buck should stop with the governor, but let’s be realistic.