"Brown 2.0 proposed to do away with most categorical aids and modify the enrollment-based distribution, giving more money to school systems with large numbers of poor and English-learner students who tended to lag behind in academic skills. About 60% of the state's nearly 6 million public school students fell into the targeted category."
"The Local Control Funding Formula, its official name, faced demands from educational reform groups that it be closely monitored to ensure the extra money was spent on the students it was meant to help and to gauge whether it did, indeed, narrow the gap. However, Brown resisted, saying he trusted local education officials to spend the money wisely."
"A decade ago, the oversight squabble finally resulted in the state Board of Education's creation of a dashboard that contains not only academic achievement data but multiple measures of non-academic factors. However, the other factors often masked academic failings, making some school systems appear to be succeeding despite poor results on academic tests."
Governor Jerry Brown's 2011 education finance overhaul replaced California's complex categorical aid system with the Local Control Funding Formula, directing additional resources to school districts serving large populations of low-income and English-learner students. This reform aimed to narrow achievement gaps by concentrating funding on approximately 60% of the state's 6 million public school students facing academic challenges. Educational reform groups demanded rigorous oversight to ensure targeted spending effectiveness, but Brown favored local control with community input. A decade later, the state Board of Education created a dashboard incorporating academic and non-academic performance measures, though these alternative metrics sometimes obscured poor academic test results.
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