Odd that a school board member would not support state measures that would so directly benefit our public schools...
Has Coladonato ever endorsed a local school parcel tax or bond measure?

Don't know about Trustee Coladonato, but Trustee Nelson is now not supporting State bonding for school facilities - for the same reason that Gov. Brown is opposing that measure. (# 51 ) The savior of equitable California education funding, Jerry Brown, is opposing the state bond because it makes no discrimination between very, very wealthy districts (like Los Altos and Woodside) and very poor districts in how it splits costs .

Whole state obligations - are not channeled to the most in need. But are most available to the first to the line.

Absurd - which is why I will vote against Proposition 51

SN is a Trustee of the MVWSD, and these are his own opinions on fair, equitable, and sustainable government

It's a real question if it's any good. Raising developer fees makes more sense to me. The law cuts in half the fees the school district can charge when there's any money
available in the pot Prop 51 will refill. It costs the state $2.7 Billion every year out of non-school expense money that could go for fixing roads or mental health, just to pay back money that already got spent out of that state-wide pot of bond borrowing. That's a heck of a lot of money. It's not a wise use of limited state funds. Passing Prop 51 wil up the state annual expense for this developer subsidy to $3.2 Billion.

I'd say around here we'd be better off if Developers paid the higher fees toward the school district's needs for construction. This is like gambling to fund the state-wide pot because there's no guarantee any particular school district will get funding it requests, and the odds diminish as the pot runs down. So long as there is any left, then the developers avoid paying the impact costs on their new developments.

Amazing what systems special interests will set up.

I'm with Greg Coladonato on this one. The Prop 30 tax increases were an emergency measure. Proposition 55 doesn't extend the broadly-based (sales tax) increase, on the the "one on the wealthy", which exposes the state revenue base to increased cyclicality during recessions. That a the mistake that our lawmakers continue to make, which bites us every time there is a downturn and the wealthy stop paying tax on their stock option gains. Meanwhile, the claim is that the spending has become baked in - we never learn...

The Governor could well have guessed that this all would happen when he proposed Prop 30, so he will have his cake and eat it too should Prop 55 pass; after all, he takes no position on it.

Let's get the spending side more efficient by continuing the internal competition that charter schools bring to school districts' schools run the old way.

WHATEVER - No more taxes, ever!

I went to Mountain View Schools more than 30 years ago (wow.. closer to 40 now that I think about it).

Somehow we paid for it all back then. But now it's just tax after tax and bond after bond.

Mountain View has more people living in it than 40 years ago. It definitely has more high profile businesses located North of Shoreline. Even with Prop 13 the tax revenues are higher than ever given the price of a house in Mountain View.

There are also A LOT FEWER STUDENTS at the same time (people are having fewer kids in general).

So the math doesn't add up. If the demand goes down (less students, less schools) why is the request for money always going up?

Enough is enough. Make do with what you have.

@ Otto (glad you have soooooooooo many click-likes :) :) I went to California K-12 schools more than 45 years ago Otto. And, I know that in the late 1970s - there was this PROPOSITION 13 change in the California Constitution, limiting the major funding sources of K-12 education. Since then - Serrano v. Priest - PROP 98 - and finally LCFF (Gov. Brown's and Dr. Kirst's extraordinary "equitable" K-12 funding revolution).

California still is in the bottom half, last I checked a list of comparisons, of state Per-Pupil-Spending on K-12 public school education. In our (old-timer) day Otto, I think we, Californians, were always in the top few spots!

So Otto, my advice, is that you please update yourself! Update your knowledge by databases like the US Dept. of Education - http://nces.ed.gov

Feelings are fine - but feelings backed by FACTS, much much finer.