South Bay educators, parents celebrate LCFF compromise

The Legislature last week passed an amended version of Governor Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula – a budget provision that will overhaul the way California schools are funded – and while it wasn’t quite what they were hoping for, local education advocates are breathing a sigh of relief knowing it could have been worse. Senator Ted Lieu and Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, backed by South Bay parents, teachers, and school administrators, have been fighting against the formula,