Meg Whitman

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Jerry Brown and Oakland schools – what were the facts? Fact: March 7, 2000 – Brown asks voters for new mayoral power to appoint school board members. He gets it and promises better schools, but the drop-out rate increases 50 percent. The school budget goes into a 100 million deficit. The schools become so bad the state has to take them over. It was largely a bust, he admitted. Jerry Brown: failure as governor, failure as mayor. Failure we can’t afford now.