Instead, as more funds arrive thanks to Proposition 30 and an improving economy, the currently more advantaged districts will see their ascent to the ultimate LCFF funding target follow a more gradual slope than the historically disadvantaged districts.
But instead of fighting for more funding and using existing resources to improve our schools, the mayor and Department of Education dismantled our neighborhood schools and wasted resources by starting new schools from scratch.
But instead of funding more humane modes of treatment — such as community mental-health centers that could help patients live independently — many states left the mentally ill to their own devices.
Some would say that instead of providing more funds to care for children, we should crack down by amending the law to allow for summary deportations, and by dramatically increasing our enforcement capabilities at the border.
Instead he has derided advocates of more funding for treatment as "the latest manifestation of the liberals' commitment to a 'therapeutic state' in which government serves as the agent of personal rehabilitation".
As University of California leaders push for a controversial multiyear tuition increase, the larger California State University system is holding back, preferring instead to wait and see if more funding can be coaxed from the state, officials said.
The outcome won't necessarily mean more funding for priority issues or pet programs, but instead, he believes, better use of existing resources.
Instead, more than half wish they had had more training in fund-raising, according to the American Council on Education.
If he had more funding, LeGros would spend more time doing "real lawyer work", as he puts it, instead of just processing his clients en masse.
