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Dueling reports on school finance as budget heats up
- 12-03-2010
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Blog by Dan Walters/Sacramento Bee
As California's perpetual state budget debate begins to heat up, so does its perpetual wrangle over financing of K-12 education, by far the largest piece of the budget. The Legislature's budget analyst says the current state budget, passed in October after a record-long political stalemate, is already more than $6 billion out of balance and the 2011-12 budget faces a nearly $20 billion initial deficit. Outgoing Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will call the Legislature into special session next week and unveil a series of spending cuts to rebalance the budget, but Democratic legislative leaders are rejecting his approach out of hand and awaiting the inauguration of Democrat Jerry Brown in January. Brown, meanwhile, will convene the first in a series of public forums next week to establish the parameters of the budget dilemma. (more…)
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