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LAO: Cut basic aid districts’ money
- 03-02-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
The Legislative Analyst is recommending cutting $200 million in state money to revenue-wealthy districts to restore a piece of the sizable cuts that Gov. Brown is proposing for child care. From San Jose, I can see the smoke signals of resistance wafting from Palo Alto to Hillsborough. Basic aid districts are those whose per-student revenue from local property taxes exceeds what they’d otherwise get from general state revenue. They comprise about one-tenth of the state’s 1,000 school districts; their revenues run from less than $100 to thousands of dollars more per student (Palo Alto, Woodside, Montecito, Sausalito) than state-funded districts, called revenue-limit districts. Not all basic aid districts have high-income families; some, like Santa Clara Unified, are basic aid because of commercial developments. Basic aid districts do get various categorical grant money from the state, and that’s what the LAO is proposing to cut – an average of about $790 per student, a significant amount. (more...)
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