The hyper-politicization of California’s public schools over the last half-century matches up almost exactly with the decline in educational achievement of its students.
Just coincidence or cause and effect? Take your pick. However, it’s demonstrably true that school districts have become arenas for ceaseless conflicts over ideology, pedagogical theory, power and money that have overshadowed their existential purpose of preparing children for adulthood.
Examples abound but none more obvious than the district in the epicenter of California politics, Sacramento City Unified…