SB 1105

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The Education Committees of both the Senate and Assembly guarantee there will be no education reform in California. Newspapers in California know this but they simply don't tell their readers.

SENATE
There are 9 members of the State Senate Education Committee.
(6 Democrats; 3 Republicans)

The 6 Democrats are:
Chairman Jack Scott
- Professor, teacher, college dean
Also Chairs the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education, which oversees approximately 48 percent of California’s state budget. His wife taught at Cerritos college and writes three columns a week for newspapers.

Senator Elaine Alquist
- teacher, local board of education member, married to the late State Senator Al Alquist.

Senator Alex Padilla
- worked for Dianne Feinstein, and later, then-Assembly member Tony Cardenas; elected Los Angeles City County at age 26. (Unmarried)

Senator Gloria Romero
- Majority leader; has taught at every level of the state’s university system.

Senator Joe Simitian
- President of the Palo Alto School Board, Mayor of Palo Alto; California Assembly 2000-2004 and appointee to various commissions.

Senator Tom Torlakson
- former science teacher

ASSEMBLY
There are 10 members of the Assembly Education Committee
(7 Democrats and 3 Republicans)

The seven Democrats are:
Chairman Gene Mullin
- former teacher

Assemblywoman Julia Browley
- Santa Monica School Board member *

Assemblyman Joe Coto
- former teacher and then superintendent of the Oakland School Unified District **

Assemblyman Mike Eng
- who chairs the Select Committee on Hate Crime

Assemblywoman Loni Hancock
- headed the Western Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Education under Bill Clinton. Former mayor of Berkeley, CA.*** Married to Tom Bates, the current mayor of Berkeley.

Assemblywoman Betty Karnette
- former school teacher

Assemblyman Jose Solario -
wife is a social studies teacher in Santa Ana. He was a former Santa Ana councilman.

MAD HATTER CITIES
The three cities , Santa Monica, Oakland and Berkeley are run by left-wing "progressives" - minus the progressive agenda.

* Santa Monica has been run by "progressives" since the 1970s. Referred to as "the People's Republic of Santa Monica " they made homelessness a real issue and gave the homeless an open invitation until the bums took the invitation seriously.

** Oakland was the home of the thuggish and murdering Black Panther Party and the state had to bail out the school district to the tune of $100 million dollars. (The 24% raise for teachers didn't help the budget much.) The Oakland Unified School District has been in receivership by the state of California since 2002. They have performed poorly for years. The only school districts in the country more dysfunctional are in New Jersey and the schools in St. Louis, Missouri.

*** Berkeley has a justifiable reputation as left wing. Tom Bates is the current mayor if Berkeley and was a former Assemblyman who was described as one of "legislature's most liberal members." That's an understatement.

These are the people in charge of education in California. SB 1105 doesn't stand a chance. . To California newspapers it's just "politics" and a game. And it means another essential basic reform will never happen, either.