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Brown commits $1 billion for Common Core, sticks with funding formula
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Tuesday to direct all of the extra $2.8 billion in revenue that the state expects to receive this year to K-12 schools and community colleges, mostly for one-time uses, including $1 billion to implement the Common Core standards. There had been projections of even more money this year, but in a news conference releasing his May budget revise, Gov. Jerry Brown tempered expectations; the drag of federal tax changes, sequestration of federal spending … Read entire article »
Filed under: Categorical Funding, Common Core standards, Equity issues, Featured, Funding and Taxation, Jerry Brown, Poverty, Proposition 98, Reporting & Analysis, Revenue and taxes, Student spending, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
Apples to apples comparison of Brown’s funding formula
Twenty-two of the 50 largest districts in the state would receive more money under Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed K-12 funding formula when it’s fully funded, potentially in seven years, while 28 districts would do better if additional money were simply divvied up under the current system, with no reforms, according to data provided this week by the state Department of Finance. Of course, glaring problems with the current system would also persist if nothing were done. Legislators … Read entire article »
Filed under: Categorical Funding, Equity issues, Featured, Proposition 98, Reporting & Analysis, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
Brown’s funding plan faces vigorous review – and speed bump
The chair of the Assembly Education Committee turned Gov. Jerry Brown’s comprehensive plan for education finance reform into bill form Thursday, ensuring that all aspects will get an extensive review, while raising the possibility that the plan may not pass in time to take effect July 1, as the governor wants. The introduction of Assembly Bill 88 by Assemblymember Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, was not unexpected. Legislative leaders for a year have called on Brown to present … Read entire article »
Filed under: Categorical Funding, Featured, Finance, Jerry Brown, Proposition 98, Reporting & Analysis, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
Bill would protect adult ed, career tech while extending local control
School districts would keep discretion to spend billions of dollars of “categorical” funding however they want for five more years under a Senate bill that passed its first hurdle in the Legislature on Wednesday. SB 223‘s provisions on local spending control are similar to Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping plan for school finance reform. Both approaches would require that districts show how they used the money, freed from state restrictions, to improve student achievement. But there … Read entire article »
Filed under: Achievement Gap, Categorical Funding, Equity issues, Featured, Funding and Taxation, Reporting & Analysis, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
Brown’s former adviser: Aim for balance behind shift to local control
Sue Burr has seen and done a lot in 40-plus years of playing key roles in California education – advising legislators and governors, administering the finances of a large school district, running the state county superintendents’ organization and, for the past two years, serving as executive director of the State Board of Education. Burr retired at the end of last year, only to be nominated two weeks later by Gov. Jerry Brown to return to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Achievement Gap, Categorical Funding, Charter Schools, College Remediation, Featured, Jerry Brown, Q&A, Reporting & Analysis, State Board of Education, State Budget, Student spending, Taxes, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
Study compliments and questions Brown’s funding formula
An analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California, released Wednesday, praises Gov. Jerry Brown’s overall plan for school finance reform, while raising questions about elements of the formula that would steer substantially more money to disadvantaged students. “The governor’s series of reform proposals are in keeping with many of the principles of good school finance reform,” conclude Margaret Weston, a PPIC research fellow, and Heather Rose, a UC Davis associate professor of education. And his … Read entire article »
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LAO has ‘serious concerns’ with governor’s Prop. 98 calculation
The State Legislative Analyst’s Office is calling into question the legality of Gov. Brown’s proposal to count new revenue from Proposition 39 toward funding for education. In a report released Thursday, the LAO warns that the governor’s plan for the initiative, the California Clean Energy Jobs Act, violates the intent of the law. Proposition 39, which won with 61 percent vote last November, is projected to raise up to half a billion dollars in revenue this fiscal … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adult education, Categorical Funding, Community Colleges, Featured, Funding and Taxation, Initiatives, Jerry Brown, Proposition 98, Reporting & Analysis, Revenue and taxes, State Budget, Taxes
Brown details how to hold districts accountable under funding reform
Responding to criticism that he is offering flexibility without accountability, Gov. Jerry Brown has offered up specifics on how he would hold school districts responsible for extra money he is proposing to give them for high-needs children under his proposed sweeping reforms of how California schools are funded. Under his plan: Districts and charter schools would be required to write or update an annual “local control and accountability plan” spelling out how the additional dollars would be used … Read entire article »
Filed under: Categorical Funding, English learners, Equity issues, Featured, Foster care, Funding and Taxation, Jerry Brown, Parents, Poverty, Reporting & Analysis, Site Councils, State Board of Education, State Budget, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
Advocates worry foster youth will be left behind under Brown’s budget
Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget proposal is worrying advocates of foster youth, who are afraid that these children could be left behind in the governor’s push to overhaul the state’s school finance system. Under the governor’s proposed “local control funding formula,” districts would get at least 35 percent more dollars – about $2,400 per child – for educating their share of the state’s English learners, low-income children, and the approximately 42,000 school-age foster students. Districts would have … Read entire article »
Filed under: Categorical Funding, Foster care, Funding and Taxation, High School Completion, K-12 Challenges, Interventions, Poverty, Reporting & Analysis, Students, Weighted Student Funding (Local Control Funding Formula)
EdWatch 2013: School finance reform redux
Gov. Jerry Brown won’t speak the words “weighted student funding formula” when he presents a new state budget next week, along with his plan to refashion the state’s complex and inequitable school finance system. The concept of funneling more education dollars to high-needs children is very much alive, and Brown will press the Legislature to act on it this year. But rebranding his plan to reform school finance is one of the changes that the governor … Read entire article »
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