Each week through November 2019, a selection of the Sacramento Bee’s 101 California Influencers answers a question that is critical to California’s future. Topics include education, healthcare, environment, housing and economic growth.

Read College Futures President and CEO Monica Lozano respond to the question, “Sacramento, Los Angeles and Oakland schoolteachers have already gone on strike this year. What is the best way to avoid teacher strikes in the future?”:

“Budgeting for education has become crisis-driven and highly political when it should be quite the opposite—thoughtful, practical, sustainable, with balanced consideration of the needs of students, teachers, schools, and the state.”

Read the full story at The Sacramento Bee.