California’s 6 million-student public school system is not only the largest chunk of the state budget that will be enacted this week – by far – but the major component of Gov. Jerry Brown’s campaign for sales and income tax increases as well.

And if that isn’t yeasty enough, the governor is also proposing huge changes in the way state school money is calculated and disbursed.

What emerges from all of this is impossible, even for political insiders, to predict.

If all goes as Brown plans, his aides say, California schools will see an average 47 percent increase in financing over the rest of his governorship, assuming it lasts another term.

via Dan Walters: California school aid at center of wrangle over tax measures.