By David Siders

Facing resistance at the Capitol and in suburban school districts to his effort to shift more education money to California’s poor and English-learning students, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday called his measure a civil rights issue and promised opponents “the battle of their lives.”

The education financing proposal is a central part of Brown’s budget plan and an emerging source of division between the Democratic governor and lawmakers of his own party.

via Jerry Brown pledges foes ‘battle of their lives’ over education funding.