With the San Francisco Unified School District facing a $130 million shortfall, parents are concerned that class sizes will soar and teachers will be fired. To the south of us, in Los Angeles their school district is facing a billion-dollar deficit. Can we look to LA as a model of what can happen in San Francisco? Returning from recently testifying before Congress, Bill Ring from TransParent® joins me to share what he has seen of the negotiations surrounding the new education bills in Sacramento that should qualify California for the “Race to the top” lottery. Teacher layoffs, school privatization, and school closures are the residue of systems that struggle to balance budgets while ignoring the educational needs of their children.