Here is a quick rundown of the highlights from Governor Jerry Brown's proposed upkeep for 2015-xvi as it relates to Grand-12 education.

The big motion picture

Source: 2015-16 Proposed California Budget

Source: 2015-sixteen Proposed California Budget. Governor's Office

Betwixt Suggestion 30 tax revenue and an improving economy, G-14 education in California is looking to win large in Gov. Jerry Dark-brown's proposed 2015-16 upkeep. Overall, K-14 could see a $7.eight billion increase in spending for the 2015-sixteen financial year.

Proposition 98 could see a 4 percent increase from 2014-15 levels, raising education revenue from that source to $65.7 billion. College than expected General Fund revenue could also add $2.7 billion more in Prop. 98 money for both the 2013-14 and 2014-fifteen financial years as well.

Squaring what's owed to schools

During the recession, the state deferred almost 20 pct of annual payments to schools, according to the proposed budget. Some schoolhouse districts borrowed money to cover costs. The Budget proposes repaying the remaining $992 one thousand thousand owed to schools and community colleges.

Preparing for Common Cadre

Under the proposal, $1.1 billion would be allocated in "discretionary" one-fourth dimension Proposition 98 funds for the broad goal of furthering investments to implement new bookish standards: Common Cadre, the English Evolution standards aligned to Mutual Core and California's Next Generation Scientific discipline standards. Information technology would also back up new responsibilities required under the Local Control Funding Formula.

Preschool slots increase

The upkeep proposal includes $33.6 million to expand state preschool programs as promised in the 2014-fifteen budget. The funds would cover 4,000 full-twenty-four hour period, full-twelvemonth slots for depression-income four-year-olds. Of those funds, $fourteen.8 million come from Proffer 98 funds. The 2014-15 budget too promised to add together 31,500 slots in upcoming years, somewhen roofing half of California's 4-yr-olds.

Deborah Kong, president of the advancement group Early Edge, said she is disappointed that the budget didn't include funding for more slots. "The country has made a commitment to serve all low-income four-year-olds," she said. "There are still 32,000 children who need preschool."

Although Kong said she understands that the state might not be able to fund all 32,000 slots in one year, she said she hopes to convince the governor and Legislature to increase the amount this year to $110 meg for ten,000 more slots.

Adult Ed could see $500 1000000

The proposed budget would allocate $500 1000000 for the Adult Educational activity Cake Grant, which includes defended funding for i more year for K-12 adult education programs. The proposal likewise sets upwardly a process by which the California Community Colleges chancellor and the superintendent of public instruction would make up one's mind distribution of the funds by region. Local consortia — fabricated up of K-12 programs, customs colleges and other organizations — in each region would then decide which programs to fund.

Although the Chiliad-12 adult teaching community preferred a more directly funding arroyo, "the proposal is absolutely workable," said Dawn Koepke, who represents the two statewide adult education organizations. "Information technology provides stability. We're quite happy with it."

Brown on Vergara lawsuit

During the budget press conference, Brownish briefly touched on the issue of teacher tenure. A Los Angeles Superior Courtroom judge ruled the current teacher protection system unconstitutional in his 2022 decision in the Vergara lawsuit.

Although Chocolate-brown said he recognized that job security was important to teachers and that he was willing to work with the Legislature to find alternatives to the current organization, he pointed to the charter school model, which "doesn't function with those detail safeguards, and it functions pretty darn well."

"Some [teachers] are not so good," Brown said, "and getting rid of them is a nightmare."

More money for applied science upgrades

Following upwardly on $26.7 million in one-fourth dimension spending to improve Internet connectivity and infrastructure at schools, Brown proposes an additional $100 one thousand thousand in one-fourth dimension spending to improve prepare schools for computer-based testing that volition be part of Mutual Core. As EdSource has reported, many schools in California yet lack the broadband infrastructure to finer administer these computer-based tests.

More coin for Local Control Funding Formula

Under the proposal, an additional $4 billion could go toward funding school districts under the Local Control Funding Formula, an increase of 8.7 per centum from terminal twelvemonth.

Changes to Career Technical Education grants

After the implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula eliminated nearly chiselled funding programs, Career Technical Education programs lost out, specifically Regional Occupational Centers and Programs. As a result of the 2013 and 2022 Budget Acts, $250 million was distributed each year through the Career Pathways Trust Program.

Over the next iii years, the budget proposes spending an additional $250 million each yr on a transitional Career Technical Education Incentive Grant program that, unlike the Career Pathways program, would require a dollar-for-dollar match past school districts, charters and county offices of education that receive funding. Also, priority would be given to local agencies that work with one some other on regional programs.  Country Board of Education President Michael Kirst said the governor'southward proposals represented a "new vision" for career technical education by not making these programs a sole K-12 responsibleness, but past encouraging collaboration with other local agencies, as well as the formation of regional partnerships.

Changes to the School Facilities Program

Brown is proposing a major change in how schoolhouse facilities are funded. Under the electric current organisation, local districts can access state bond money on a matching basis. Brownish wants to eliminate state aid for all districts except those that do not have plenty belongings wealth to be able to finance new facilities on their own.

Kirst said that the governor'southward proposals would bring school construction funding much more in line with the Local Control Funding Formula by targeting state money to school districts with the greatest financial need.

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