Parents push for more prominent place at the school budget table is an article at Ed Source about an effort sponsored by The California Endowment, one of the largest funders in the state, to encourage parent participation in implementing California’s new school funding formula.

It’s certainly an important and necessary goal. However, I have to admit I get nervous when I see foundations actually doing things instead of funding other groups already on the ground.

Funding initiatives like that don’t have a long track of success….