May 20, 2022
California education to be spared divisive statewide election battles this year
Education ballot measures that promised to be most divisive failed to gather enough support and signatures to make it to the ballot this year.
Elections have a major impact on California education. Voters have passed ballot measures that set the level of state education funding. They banned bilingual education and later reversed that ban. Voters elect the state superintendent of public instruction and local school board members. And they elect governors who have power over school funding, appointing members to the State Board of Education and to the UC Board of Regents and the CSU Board of Trustees.