My Vote, Our Future and the Santa Clara County Office of Education: School Funding & Voter Education

March 31, 2012, a brand new voter education group and Santa Clara County's Office of Education partnered with several experts to show area parents and community members the importance of school funding and how state representatives are crucial to that process.

My Vote, Our Future (MVOF), a project of the Registrar of Voters of Santa Clara and several community-based organizations, launched at the beginning of March to reach out to young, first-time voters, seniors, parents, and immigrants.

So far My Vote, Our Future has released two video public service announcements online and will be creating 30-second spots in seven major languages on media partners Univision and Asian television station KTSF.

In addition to providing information about school funding, such as the fact that college costs at a UC have risen 84 percent since 2007-2008, the experts discussed the state of K-12 funding in the area covered by Santa Clara County of Education (SCCOE).

How did area schools fare in the face of this year's trigger cuts? What is the projected budget going to be like under different ballot initiative scenarios intended to fund public education?

The third major effort of this voter education project is a series of high school voter registration drives that started March 1 and will continue to May 21, which is the last day to register for the June 5, 2012 California primary.

Read more here about the day's events, the presentations on school funding (including links to powerpoint slides by Dr. Charles Weis, SCCOE Superintendent, and Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Analyst of the California Budget Project).