Still, we knew teaching was tough, and we are ever-grateful to the ones who helped launch our own lives. But public school trustees in California in an age of declining enrollment due both to demographic trends and to the growing prevalence of private and charter schools are facing a real cash-flow predicament. It doesn’t take consultants being paid the equivalent of two teacher salary and benefit packages to do that job. Superintendent Elizabeth “Blanco said the resolution led to the pursuit of a contract with Total School Solutions to have an external and unbiased expertise to guide the transformation process. Total School Solutions is an educational consulting firm based in Fairfield.” Wilson reports.