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March 15, 2006 - Presented to Mervyn Dymally, Chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Senate Education Committee, Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, Assembly Education Committee, and Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee.
March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Committee Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Committee Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Committee Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
March 14, 2006 - Presented to the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance.
March 9, 2006 - Presented to the Joint Assembly and Senate Education Committee.
March 6, 2006 - Presented to Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2
February 24, 2006 - Presented to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 4
February 23, 2006 - We highlight the major K-12 recommendations in our Analysis of the 2006-07 Budget Bill.
February 23, 2006 - Index of Information Technology Issues in the Analysis of the 2006-07 Budget Bill
February 23, 2006 - The current structure of the Emergency Repair Program (ERP) makes it difficult for districts to apply for funds and provides incentives for districts to avoid addressing facility problems until they become real emergencies. We recommend the Legislature enact legislation to grant the ERP funds directly to districts with low performing schools to address facility needs identified by their facilities needs assessments, and maintain $50 million at the state level to provide districts with loans for pressing emergency repair needs.
February 23, 2006 - As approved by voters in 2002, Proposition 49 requires the state to increase funding for the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program beginning in 2006-07. We continue to recommend the Legislature enact legislation placing before the voters a repeal of Proposition 49 because (1) it triggers an autopilot augmentation even though the state is facing a structural budget gap of billions of dollars, (2) the additional spending on after school programs is a lower budget priority than protecting districts’ base education program, and (3) existing state and federal after school funds are going unused.
February 23, 2006 - The Governor’s budget proposes $133.6 million from the General Fund to pay for the costs of state-mandated local programs in K-12 education and community colleges in 2006-07. We find that the amount proposed in the budget bill for mandates falls short of fully funding ongoing mandate costs; the mandates claims process could be streamlined and simplified by reimbursing districts on a per-pupil basis for all K-12 mandates; recent action by the Commission on State Mandates (CSM) on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) mandate raises issues about how the state should address local implementation costs of this program; and funding for state truancy mandates could be used more effectively by transforming these programs into a categorical program aimed at reducing truancy and dropouts.
February 23, 2006 - In our Analysis of the 2005-06 Budget Bill, we discussed the range of fiscal issues facing school districts. These included low general purpose reserves, internal borrowing from self-insurance funds, and falling state revenues due to declining enrollment. We also discussed the long-term challenge created by new accounting requirements on retiree health benefits. The financial health of districts has not improved significantly, and may have even worsened somewhat, over the past year. Here we deepen our discussion of the impact of the new accounting requirements on K-12 school districts and reiterate our recommendations for ensuring that districts address retiree health liabilities. We also provide the Legislature with an option to help improve district financial conditions through a fiscal solvency block grant, which would give districts flexible funds to address the broad range of fiscal problems encountered locally.