Battling Jerry “Bulldog” Brown is back, and with the right cause. He vowed Wednesday “to fight with everything I have and whatever we have to bring to bear” to overhaul what his budget calls the state’s “overly complex, administratively costly and inequitably distributed” school funding system.
After doing virtually nothing to engage the Legislature on this since January, it took a Senate proposal (Senate Bill 69, by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg) that modifies key elements to rouse Brown to action.