California In Crisis: California’s expensive education failure

By Conn Carroll

Published February 26, 2013 5:00am ET

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California In Crisis: California’s expensive education failure — California Gov. Jerry Brown talks with students of a second-grade class at Perkins Elementary School on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, in San Diego. California was once considered an "excellent" education system, according to RAND Corp, but now ranks in the bottom three states for eight grade math and reading levels. (Lenny Ignelzi/AP file) | Lenny Ignelzi

Third part of a five-part series. Read the previous day’s installment at this link, and see the entire series, including video and graphics, at this link.

“Nothing is more determinative of our future than how we teach our children,” California Gov. Jerry Brown said in his January State of the State address. “If we fail at this, we will sow growing social chaos and inequality that no law can rectify.”

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