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Tom Torlakson, California’s superintendent of public instruction, toured Arroyo Valley High School Monday and declared that the state has entered a new era in how it pays for education.
Torlakson, the state’s top-ranked educator, was referring to Gov. Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula, which was put in place two years ago, according to a report in the San Bernardino County Sun.
That program pays each of the state’s school districts more money, but it gives extra funds to districts that are educating mostly poor and foster children as well as children who must learn English, the report stated.
Under that program, local community officials establish goals for the district to achieve and then determine whether those goals are being met. It will take several years to determine how well the new approach to funding is working, Torlakson said.
