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Big (invisible) boost in K-12 spending
- 05-17-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Gov. Jerry Brown gave K-12 school districts significantly more money, tempered by conflicting messages and sober warnings in the May Revision budget he presented on Monday. Reflecting higher state revenues and an acknowledgment that schools and community colleges have been socked disproportionately in recent years, the extra dollars for 2011-12 would raise base level funding under Proposition 98 $3 billion above the $49.4 billion that Brown proposed five months ago. That’s about half of the $6.6 billion in new money that the state now expects (see budget summary for education). For most parents and teachers, the extra dollars will be all but invisible. Most districts won’t be rehiring staff or restoring programs from a few years ago; additional per-student aid will rise but a blip. Brown is proposing that nearly all of the money be used to eliminate $2 billion in late payments, known as deferrals, that he had proposed in January, and to pay down $400 million in previous K-12 deferrals, along with $350 million in community college deferrals. That will help districts’ balance sheets, but not the classroom, at least not directly. Funding overall would remain flat. (more...)
Also: San Jose Mercury News
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