These rural schools face a financial 'cliff.' Will partisan bickering cut off a lifeline?

[Zorro]

Anmarie Swanstrom had driven four hours along twisting mountain roads, through the fire-scarred Shasta-Trinity National Forest, to Sacramento to catch a red-eye flight.

Now, here she was — a school superintendent from impoverished Hayfork, Calif. — clutching a pair of black high heels, power-walking in bare feet across Capitol Hill.

She had come to plead for money for the 340 students of the Mountain Valley Unified School District, where she also is a principal.

Swanstrom’s district will lose a significant chunk of its budget if Congress does not renew the Secure Rural Schools Act, a longstanding program for schools in forested counties, by this fall. She would have to lay people off.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-22/rural-california-schools-money-superintendents-washington

[Bayard]

1. Yeah, but what kind of books are in her libraries?

That's the important thing.

[MichMan]

2. Why isn't California adequately funding it's schools, so they don't need to go begging to DC ?

Isn't the bulk of all school spending a state and local issue?