Katie Porter

I think there's a lot to be said about looking at the state level at where do we lose people and we can never get them back.

So if you're not reading fluently by age seven or eight,

We never get you there.

That's just about brain development.

If you don't make that jump from Algebra 1 to Algebra 2, you are not going to have any of those STEM, engineering, even a lot of the building trades careers are not going to be open to you.

And that's a place where the state could really concentrate its resources.

We changed things up with the local control funding formula several years ago.

What we haven't done is go back and seen whether it's worked or not.

So, but...

I don't understand the hedge.

No, it's just a matter of saying to yourself, like, you have to realize that when the governor takes all that, you are still dealing with every county board of education.

That's not something you're eliminating.

You are not dealing with the local school boards.

They still have a lot of authority.

So I just want to be very clear.

You can and I think probably should consolidate it all at the state level with the governor.

But let me be very clear.

What happens in local school boards, much less what happens in every classroom, that's

That is that is also in the mix.

So if the governor had a stronger authority, you have one entity to do that negotiation.