What do California's legislators do when Californians are tired of disappointing school results and it looks as though they may vote for Republican leadership in November? They gut the office and shift power to their political appointees/cronies, calling it reform in the name of efficiency.Test scores remain disappointing, parents continue to express frustration, and schools face growing challenges despite record levels of spending. Those problems deserve real solutions, not political power shifts.That's exactly what Assembly Bill 181 will do if passed.California's political leadership has chosen to solve a political problem rather than an educational one. Under the guise of "modernizing" state government, the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom are stripping authority from the e
