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(In contrast to the other segments, we believe the state should not impose additional maintenance requirements on elementary and secondary schools at this time. The diffe rent approach for schools acknowledges the state’s recent decision to shift fiscal decision making and accountability for many aspects of schools’ operations—including maintenance— to the local level.)
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Format: The 2018-19 Budget: Update on K-12 Student Attendance April 16, 2018 - In early March of 2018, we received data from the California Department of Education (CDE) on student attendance for the first half of the 2017-18 school year.
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Format: February 10, 2011 - Public Retirement Benefits: Options for the Future Format: Webcast: Public Retirement Benefits, Options for the Future February 10, 2011 - In this 15-minute video, LAO State Finance Director Jason Sisney describes why public employee retirement costs have risen substantially in recent years for California governments and the Legislature's options for creating new types of retirement benefits for future state and local employees.
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These include: ensuring each county has the same fiscal incentive to participate, providing participating counties greater funding certainty, promoting representative and consistently measured results, and potentially increasing near-term state savings on school spending.
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Format: February 25, 2014 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance Format: Review of School Transportation in California February 25, 2014 - In 2013-14, the Legislature undertook a major restructuring of school finance but retained the state’s Home-to-School Transportation (HTST) program.
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The Governor's Proposition 98 wall of debt plan also includes a reasonable multiyear approach to paying off all outst anding school and community college obligations one year before the expiration of Proposition 30 revenues.
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We make a number of recommendations in the report, including (1) continuing the exemption for most re gionally accredited schools but conducting a limited review of business practices for a small number of these schools that are deemed higher risk, (2) reducing the scope of reviews for some nationally accredited schools that currently are subject
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While the transition to the LCFF begins in 2013-14, it will take several years before all pro visions are fully implemented and districts and charter schools are fully funded to formula targets. Moreover, a number of key decisions have yet to be made regarding the implement ation of the new fiscal and academic accountability provisions.
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After years of "boom and bust" budgeting, California's leaders now have the opportunity to build a budget for future years that gives the state more choices abo ut how to build reserves in times of healthy revenue growth, prioritize future state spending, and pay off past debts.
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