The goals of this article are to provide a critical policy analysis and conceptual examination of California's Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and Accountability (LCAP) systems in the Silicon Valley context. The goals and structure of this article are as follows: First, I situate my discussion on LCFF by providing a sociocultural and sociopolitical portrait of the Silicon Valley context where this examination takes place. Next, I highlight key findings from a critical policy analysis of LCAPs and corresponding budgets in one Northern California county comprising 31 districts, whereby juxtaposing notions of need with actual allocation of resources. As part of my descriptive analysis I shed light on the politics of California's LCFF in practice, and implications for minoritized communities.