EdSource Today: Texas, California do compete – in funding race to the bottom
By Peter Schrag Steve Murdock isn’t a household name in Sacramento – but maybe he should be. Murdock is the former state demographer in Texas. This month, he testified in a trial in which hundreds of...
View ArticleFSUSD’s Facebook Wall: The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District is...
The Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District is holding its final informational meeting for the community regarding school budgets and financing. Information on the initiatives that will appear on the...
View ArticleDan Walters: What to do if Proposition 30 fails?
As the political odds turn against Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax measure, political insiders are turning their attention, however reluctantly, to the fallout should, indeed, voters reject the...
View ArticleBenicia Patch: How Much Money Does a Day at the Parade Cost Benicia Schools?
by JB Davis The Benicia Unified School District lost $11,400 in funding on Wednesday, October 31 when there were about 380 students who were absent from school. The district receives slightly more than...
View ArticleEdSource Today: Vast inequality lurks behind mind-numbing data on school...
By Arun Ramanathan School finance has the power to bring tears to my eyes. Sometimes, when I am reading the latest School Services of California bulletin, I start squinting. Then I start yawning. Then,...
View ArticleEdSource Today: Campaign contributors should make matching donations to schools
By Louis Freedberg and Carl Cohn The welcome passage of Proposition 30 by voters this week will help avert an immediate fiscal crisis in our schools. But it will not undo the damage of years of...
View ArticleThe Educated Guess: This time, groups get to say their piece on weighted...
by John Fensterwald Intent on passing school finance reform this year but open to revising last year’s proposal, the Brown administration held the first of three Friday meetings with dozens of school...
View ArticleEdSource Today: Look under a different lamp post for keys to fix our schools
By Seth Rosenblatt There’s the old joke about a man crawling on his hands and knees late at night under a lamp post, looking for keys he lost two blocks away, because, as he tells a police officer,...
View ArticleThe Educated Guess: Soon no more seeing red in state education funding, says LAO
by Kathryn Baron Funding for California schools through Proposition 98 is heading up, even though the state’s general fund will still be facing a small deficit over the next couple of years. That’s...
View ArticleEdSource Today: New Assembly Education chair skeptical of plan for weighted...
By John Fensterwald Any bill to change the way that California funds its public schools will have to go through Joan Buchanan, and that could present problems for Gov. Jerry Brown. Buchanan is the new...
View ArticleEdSource Today: Beyond Proposition 30: Eight Challenges for California’s...
by Louis Freedberg The passage of Proposition 30 represents a major victory for public schools, and for Governor Jerry Brown, but still to be tackled are multiple challenges facing California’s...
View ArticleThe Reporter: Several California school districts — including Vacaville...
By Richard Bammer/ RBammer@TheReporter.com Some 200 school districts across California have borrowed billions of dollars using a costly and risky form of financing called capital appreciation bonds, or...
View ArticleEdSource Today: First sign of better times for schools under Prop 30
By Kathryn Baron Deferred payments to California schools and community colleges will fall to their lowest level in five years this academic year, and repayments for previous deferrals is starting...
View ArticleLegislative Analyst’s Office Presentation: California’s Fiscal Outlook
Legislative Analyst’s Office: Recent K-12 Education Publications, Handouts and Budget Recommendations Presented to the California Association of School Business Officials CBO Symposium. via...
View ArticleThe Educated Guess: Appeals court imposes restrictions on parcel taxes
by John Fensterwald Democrats in the Legislature are poised to help make it easier for school districts to pass parcel taxes, but a court ruling this month – if it withstands an appeal – will narrow...
View ArticleEdSource Today: With more money to spend, Brown launches K-12 funding reform
By John Fensterwald Gov. Jerry Brown yesterday proposed an unfamiliar budget for public education in the state – one with actual increases. His 2013-14 spending plan for K-12 schools includes a...
View ArticleEdSource Today: More money, more accountability for community colleges
By Kathryn Baron Additional reporting by Sue Frey Gov. Brown’s spending plan for community colleges reflects the new focus in the state’s 112-campus community college system on increasing graduation...
View ArticleThe Reporter: Solano County officials speak out on Governor Jerry Brown’s...
By Robin Miller/ RMiller@TheReporter.com While they are generally supportive of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed 2013-14 state budget, Solano County’s two elected state representatives and the county’s...
View ArticleVallejo Times-Herald: Schools give new state budget a cautious A for boosts...
By Sarah Rohrs/Times-Herald staff writer / After weathering years of budget cuts, local schools and colleges give California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed new budget improved grades for better funding....
View ArticleDan Walters: Safety-net cutbacks still a California issue
Proposition 30, the sales and income tax hike that Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded voters to pass last year, raised state revenue by billions a year. The 2013-14 budget Brown proposed Thursday would spend...
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