Around the country, community groups, education advocates, and civil rights attorneys have been fighting for fair funding for schools. In California in 2012, parents, students, community leaders, organizers, labor members, and clergy joined forces across the state to pass Proposition 30, a ballot initiative that has raised an average of $6 billion a year for public schools. Turnout among low-income voters, voters of color, and first-time voters was a decisive factor in the Proposition’s passage. It was the first education tax increase passed by California voters in three decades.