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The unintended consequence of that overall bundle has been to invert the stated purpose of Proposition 98. Originally designed to be a floor under school financing, it has instead become a ceiling. No legislature will nowadays raise school spending any more than necessary, because the formulas would then require even greater increases the following year. (Journalists usually take a shortcut through all the calculations and simply say that Proposition 98 requires “about 40%” of the general fund to go to schools.)
Mr Mockler has been thinking about all this for decades. He drafted one of the most important ballot measures ever. And yet he calls the entire initiative process “mob rule” and blames it for keeping the state’s schools down. “If you put an initiative on the ballot that repealed every initiative of the past 40 years, I’d vote for it,” he says. The question of who is accountable for California’s mediocre schools has a surprisingly simple answer: everybody, which is to say nobody.

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unintended consequence 의도하지 않았던 결과. bundle 묶음, 꾸러미.
invert 거꾸로 된, 反轉(반전)의, 逆(역)의. stated 명백히 규정된, 정해진.
be a floor under 바닥(최저선)이 되다. formulas 공식규격, 定式(정식).
calculations 계산. drafted 起草(기초)하다. measures 법령.
“mob rule” 暴民(폭민) 통치. repeal 폐지하다, 무효로 하다.
accountable 책임을 지다. mediocre 2류의, 평범한.