How to fully fund public education.

Voter education
Invention curriculum
Business community support

Voter education

Almost all the money for education comes from the State and Federal government. Legislators vote on how much money we get. Only 10% of citizens vote in primary elections. If you get more parents and students voting then legislators will vote to fully fund education.

Invention curriculum

Universities make billions of dollars from inventing products and services that they license to industry. There are students in elementary school, middle school and high school who have made millions of dollars from things they invented. Implementing a program to develop this process and sharing the revenue with all stakeholders can generate billions of dollars.

Business community support

California is the richest State in the United States of America. But public education in California is near the bottom of all the other States. The money is here. It is just that business doesn’t see the return on their investment that they’d like. The business community hasn’t bought into public education. When I talked with some of the business community organizations in the San Fernando Valley they tell me they feel locked out of helping with curriculum development in LAUSD. I believe the business community would support more money for public education if they felt that the graduates of our high schools and community colleges produced the high skilled workers they need to stay profitable.

Back in the 1970’s a friend of mine moved to California right after he graduated high school in New York because he got a job working on the B1 Bomber. Right out of high school he was working on our country’s most advanced technology making more money than the average adult. It would be a good goal to work with the business community to produce highly skilled graduates who are ready to work in high paid jobs.