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Californians Face Rival Ballot Initiatives That Would Raise Taxes and Aid Schools
• New York TimesFirst came a competing save-our-schools ballot initiative, backed by a wealthy lawyer who proved more persistent than Gov. Jerry Brown had hoped. Then came a summer of minor financial embarrassments that handed Mr. Brown’s opponents a narrative to us