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 The
Orinda School District is located across the bay from San Franciso.
Featured in First to Worst, it is an example of a district that remains
excellent, despite the many challenges faced by California's education
system. How does Orinda maintain it's high standards? Through the
effort of parents.
In
Orinda, and in more than 400 of California's 1000 school districts,
parents have created education foundations to raise private money
for their public schools. Most of these education foundations were
created in the early 1980s in response to funding limits imposed by
the finance equalization lawsuit Serrano v.
Priest, and Proposition 13.
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John
Deasy, superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified
School District, discusses some of the problems posed by private
fund-raising in his district. |
Roundtable
Discussion: Orinda parents tell how they raise more than
one million dollars a year for their 6 schools. |
Information about spending and performance in the Orinda Union School
District
Information
about the Education Foundation of Orinda
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