Want More Proof Of How Screwed Up California's School Budgeting Is?

Go read EIA's latest, which starts thusly:

Last June in the dead of night the California legislature passed AB 114, which required school districts to assume they would receive the same amount of money from the state in the 2011-12 school year as in 2010-11, and to budget accordingly. Gov. Jerry Brown quickly signed it into law.

Any guesses how that's turned out? You can find out at the link, but I don't think it'll be too much of a surprise to learn that "hope", "smoke", and "mirrors" are involved.