> $/pupil in public school operating costs is mandated to be equal across the state That's not accurate, a major part of Jerry Brown's education policy changes

> $/pupil in public school operating costs is mandated to be equal across the state That's not accurate, a major part of Jerry Brown's education policy changes have been improved funding for title 1 schools (low income criteria - which most or all SF public schools meet) at the expense of non-title 1 schools. The measure is the Local Control Funding Formula. You are directionally accurate in that CA law greatly reduces the ways cities can put money into the operating budgets of their school districts. However, there are plenty of ways around this, if people were strongly invested in building better schools in SF they would be using them.