More on Oakland’s Bad Experience with Kids First

http://www.eastbaytimes.com/oaklandtribune/ci_11306565: “Mayor Ron Dellums released a budget report this week projecting a general fund deficit of $50 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, and $58 million the year after that. The bleak projections...

Oakland a Success Story for Kids First? Not Exactly.

After voters passed Oakland’s version of Kids First, they had buyers’ remorse when they discovered that it was draining the General Fund. So they passed Measure D in 2009 to reverse the drain of money. Measure D amended City of Oakland Kids First!, Measure OO by...

Kids First – A Most Cynical Initiative

The Kids First initiative Just qualified yesterday with only nine signatures to spare. The move to the November 2016 ballot, it will require five votes of the City Council to place it on the agenda as an emergency item because, by state law, the agenda has a 72-hour...