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Suit to charge schools owed $2b more
- 09-28-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
In a lawsuit they will announce today, school administrators and school boards associations will contend that the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown illegally shorted K-12 schools and community colleges $2.1 billion owed to them under Proposition 98. The money was diverted from the general fund as part of Brown’s plan to shift some public safety responsibilities to counties and cities. In return, the governor and Legislature issued an IOU in the form of a promise to ask voters no later than November 2012 to raise taxes and repay what was owed to the schools. But in their suit, the California School Boards Association, the Association of California School Administrators, and a handful of school districts will argue that shifting 1.06 percent of the state sales tax – about $5 billion – to local agencies denied schools their due, about 40 percent or $2.1 billion, as required under Prop 98, which voters approved as an amendment to the state Constitution. (more...)
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