Major Issues

Overview

• Historical Perspective of Funding Per Student
• Funding Effort
• Proposition 98
• Proposition 98 Allocations

Crosscutting Issues

• Federal Funding

Introduction

• Governor's Budget Proposals
• Governor's "Raising Expectations, Achievement, And Development" in Schools Proposal
• LAO Special Session Guide to K-12 Reform

Budget Issues

• K-12 Priorities
• Additional Proposition 98 Funds
• Place Residual Funds into School District Block Grants
• Approve Proposed COLA Calculation
• Revenue Limits
• Deficit Factor Buy-Out
• Funding for Deficit Factor Buy-Out
• Adjust the Deficit Factor to Accurately Reflect Funding Growth
• The Governor's Reading Initiatives
• Improving Reading Skills
• Problems That the Governor's Initiatives Seek to Address
• Putting These Problems in Context
• Existing Programs Addressing These Problems
• Create a Consolidated Item for "Improving Academic Skills"
• English Language Learners
• English Language Development Test
• Proposition 227
• Classroom and School Library Funds
• Teacher Quality
• What Does It Take to Become a Teacher?
• Who Is Teaching?
• Evaluating New Proposals
• Governor's Proposals To Enhance Teacher Quality
• Reading Professional Development Institutes
• Governor's Teacher Scholars and Principal Leadership Institutes
• Teacher Peer Review and Assistance Program
• Paraprofessional Teacher Training
• Teacher Credential Fee Waiver
• Staff Development Block Grant
• Commission on Teacher Credentialing
• Deny Request for Permanent and New Positions
• Information Technology Requests
• Governor's Accountability Proposals
• LAO Guidelines for a State Accountability System
• Governor's Performance Awards
• Technical Funding Change Would Make $150 Million Available for Upcoming School Year
• Hold Districts Accountable for School Performance
• Authorize Districts to Give Bonuses As Part of Performance Awards
• Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program
• What Is Comprehensive School Reform?
• The Governor's Proposal Appears to Overbudget for Its Stated Purposes
• Modify the Funding Mechanism
• School Participation Should Be Voluntary
• Districts Should Intervene First; State Intervention Should Be Last Resort
• High School Exit Exam
• Potential Costs of a High School Exit Exam
• Policy Issues on High School Exit Exams
• Provide SDE With More Choices in Designing the High School Exit Exam
• Child Development
• The Subsidized Child Care System
• The CalWORKs Child Care Program
• Budget Restricts Child Care Funding for Former CalWORKs Recipients
• Family Fee Schedule Reform
• Lack of Policy-Relevant Data
• Other Issues
• Matrix Testing
• Slow Progress Continues on State Standards and Assessments
• STAR Test Developments
• Matrix Sample Test Under Development
• California School Information Services
• Benefits of a Student Level Database
• Create External Technical Oversight
• Does SDE Have Adequate Staff Resources?
• Deferred Maintenance
• K-12 Education for Adults in Correctional Facilities
• Charter Schools
• Increase Federal Grants for Charter Schools
• Charter School Finance
• Moorpark Unified School District Voluntary Desegregation Program

Introduction

• Major Budget Changes
• Enrollment
• Student Fees
• Detail Missing on Program Spending

Departmental

• University of California (6440)
• The UC Budget Detail to Be Available in Spring
• The UC Should Submit Plan for Evaluating Outreach Programs
• Background
• The UC Should Report at Budget Hearings On Progress Toward a Tenth Campus
• K-12 Initiatives at UC Are Misplaced
• Shift Proposed Funding for Reading Professional Development Institutes
• Shift $1 Million Proposed for Teacher-Scholars and Principal-Leadership Initiatives to Cal Grant T Program
• California State University (6610)
• The CSU Budget Detail To Be Available in Spring
• One-Time Carryover Funds: Encourage Spending on Pressing Campus Needs
• The CSU Cannot Document Growth in Teacher Preparation Enrollments
• Has CSU Increased Teacher Preparation Enrollments as Promised?
• Record-Keeping Reforms Implemented, CSU Reports
• If No Proof, Shift $13.8 million From CSU to Cal Grant T Program
• California Community Colleges (6870)
• Governor's Budget Proposals
• Proposition 98 Spending by Major Program
• Enrollment Growth
• Partnership for Excellence Program
• Partnership for Excellence Augmentation
• Use Partnership for Excellence Funds To Support Transfer Proposal
• Value of Report Card to High Schools Not Established
• Teacher and Reading Development Proposal Lacks Important Detail
• Effectiveness of Middle College High School Program Unsupported
• Economic Development Program Recommendations
• Student Aid Commission (7980)
• Major General Fund Budget Changes
• The Cal Grant Program
• The Cal Grant T Program Should Be Expanded
• Financial Need Formulas Should Include Federal Tax Credits for Tuition