> The teachers would just fill in the tests for the students.

Fraud is illegal. If the law isn't going to be enforced, then trying to fix the law is useless.

I agree about food insecurity. Nationally, it's worse now than it was during COVID. California actually made some good progress on that a few years ago:

https://www.cafoodbanks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SB138...

I haven't checked food insecurity rates since then, but you may have noticed that food collection barrels have become rare around the holidays. At least for a few years, the food banks in Silicon Valley were truck-constrained, not food-constrained, so those barrels weren't worth the effort.