Senior Project Days Two & Three

This is a combined post for days two & three of my senior project, as I forgot to blog day two. Day two was entirely a research day. I'm aiming for a completed draft of the first third of my research paper by the end of Friday. The question I'm focusing on this week is: what are the underlying budget problems that led to Prop 30? During the course of my research, I identified a few major factors: Prop 13, rising correctional expenditures, mismanagement of teacher pension funds, decline in property values, and the general slowdown in the California economy. Over the past two days I've dug deeper into all of these specific areas. Day three marked the beginning of my work at Cobb. I'm working from 3-6 Monday-Thursday for the next two weeks. What I'll be doing specifically should vary. I worked with kindergartners today, mostly just managing their ridiculous energy levels. In the future I'll be doing some administrative work and be tutoring some fourth and fifth graders.