California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is scrambling to avoid $4.8 billion in potential cuts to public school funding. His controversial plans hinge on lawmakers' approval.
This revealing documentary takes you behind the ivy-covered walls of our colleges and universities to see if they are delivering on their promise.
Find out more about how Proposition 13 affects school financing today.
How California's 1978 tax revolution affected the schools and what legislators are doing about it.
An introduction to the documentary, First to Worst
Explores the roots of California's current education crisis, tracing it to the anti-tax movement of the 1970's and 80's and to civil rights lawsuits that aimed to equalize school spending but resulted instead in disastrous funding limits on schools.
Standards are necessary, of course, and so is accountability, but are schools being backed into a corner? If they continue to live by test results, will they die that way?
Several major American cities have accepted the challenge of school reform but none with more energy, commitment, and public attention than Philadelphia, Chicago, and Seattle.
The extraordinarily high drop-out rate among Latinos is the result of many factors, one of which is language. But it's only part of the picture.
In 1994, Philadelphia was one of the worst school districts in the United States. Looking for a radical change, the city hired an untested superintendent, David Hornbeck. But Hornbeck's dream and the reality turned out to be two different things.
