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Reports and Updates
May 19, 2009 Statewide
Election Ballot Measures, California School Boards Association and the
Legislative Analyst's Office
Proposition 1A:
State Budget. Changes California Budget Process. Limits
State Spending. Increases
"Rainy Day" Budget
Stabilization Fund.
Proposition 1B:
Education Funding. Payment Plan.
Proposition 1C: Lottery Modernization Act
Proposition 1D:
Protects Children's Services Funding. Helps Balance State Budget.
Redirection on
Proposition 10 Funds.
Proposition 1E:
Mental Health Funding. Temporary Reallocation.
Proposition 1F:
Elected Official's Salaries. Prevents Pay Increases During Budget
Deficit Years.
"Legislative Analyst Indicates Budget Troubles Not
Yet Over", Jeff Frost, Frost, David and Donnelly, March 16, 2009
2008-2009 and 2009-2010 State Budget:
Initial Analysis, February 20, 2009,
Association of California School Administrators, Total School Solutions,
and Blattner and Associates
"Budget plan goes to Schwarzenegger after
Legislature's OK",
Sacramento Bee, February 19, 2009
"Legislature Fails to Pass 17-Month Budget"
- School Services of
California, February 18, 2009
"Tentative Budget Agreement"
- Association of California
School Administrators, February 15, 2009
Budget Update, Rick Simpson, Senior Education Policy Advisor to Assembly
Speaker Karen Bass, February 14, 2009
Archive of the February 12th Webcast, An Evening of Policy:
Reducing the Budget as the Storm Strengthens:
http://www.sscal.com/webcast.cfm?action=display&contentID=1684
"Public schools get
hard hit in budget plan"
- Capitol Weekly, January 22, 2009
"Governor's speech: Fix the budget now"
- Chronicle
Sacramento Bureau,
January 15, 2009
"Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger Delivers State of the State Address"
- Office of
the Governor, January 15,
2009
"Budget imbroglio takes new twists and turns"
- California
School Boards Association,
January 7, 2009
"Legislative Update"
- The Office
of the Governor, January 6, 2009
"Early Release of Governor's Proposed 2009-2010
State Budget"
- School
Services of California, January 5, 2009
State
Education Coalition Update, December 19, 2008
"Governor Declares Fiscal Emergency - Calls
Special Session"
- School
Services of California, December 1, 2008
Another Exercise in Futility as Democrats' Budget
Package is Rejected
-
School Services of California, November 25, 2008
"Governor drops budget bomb"
- California Association of School Business
Officials, November 6, 2008
Governor Proposes $2.5 Billion in Midyear Budget
Cuts - Special Session Called for November 6, 2008
- School Services of
California, November 6, 2008
Detail on Proposed Reductions to Proposition 98,
School Services of California, November 6, 2008
Governor Schwarzenegger Announces Plan to Address
Budget Emergency, Stimulate California's Economy, November 6, 2008
State
Education Coalition Update, October 29, 2008
Special Session on Budget Shortfall to Convene
- School Services of California, October 29, 2008
Impacts of Budget Cuts on California Schools and Students
- State
Education Coalition, October 29, 2008
"Governor will call special legislative session on
budget"
- Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee, October 28, 2008
"Governor Finally Signs 2008-2009 State Budget"
- Budget Report by Jeff
Frost, Frost, Davis and Donnelly, September 23, 2008
"Governor Schwarzenegger Signs State Budget with
Budget Reform", September 23, 2008
"Is that
your final answer?"
- California Association of School Business
Officials, September 19, 2008
Update: What They're Saying...About the
Governor's Decision to Veto the Legislature's Budget,
September 17, 2008
Budget Alert, a 'dark day' for state, schools and
students
- California School Boards Association,
September 16, 2008
Budget Alert
- California School Boards Association,
September 8, 2008
Budget Advisory: Implications of a Late
Budget on K-Adult Program Apportionments
-
ACSA, CASBO, CCSESA, CSBA,
September 4, 2008
"Stop! Don't Pass a Bad Budget - Take the
Time to Get It Right This Year"
- State
Education Coalition,
September 3, 2008
Budget Alert
- California School Boards Association, August 29, 2008
State Budget Alert
- California School Boards
Association, August 27, 2008
"Governor Proposes a Budget Compromise, August 20, 2008
Budget Update and Analysis
- California School Boards
Association, August 8, 2008
Governor
Schwarzenegger's Executive Order, July 31, 2008
State Education Coalition
Radio Spots:
"Ride"
"Not an Expert"
Management Advisory:
Implications of a Late Budget
- Association of California School
Administrators,
July 7, 2008
FY 2008-2009 Questions and
Answers: Stay Vigilant in Protecting Proposition 98
- Association
of California
School Administrators, July 7,
2008
State Education Coalition - May Budget Revise
Talking Points
Senate Budget
Committee Increases Education Funding
- School Services Report, June 6,
2008
Assembly Budget Proposal Would Boost School
Funding
- California School Boards Association, May 30, 2008
Governor's May Revise Analysis
- Association of California School
Administrators, May 14, 2008
California
Legislative Analyst's Office - Overview of the 2008-2009 May Revision
State Education Coalition Update - April 21,
2008
Budget
Talking Points
Budget "Pop
Quiz"
Questions and Answers
"Why This Year is Different" - Jean Ross, California Budget
Project, March 2008
“Budget Changes Resulting from the Special Session” - California
Department of Education, February 20, 2008
“Highlights of the 2008-09 Analysis”
-
Office of the Legislative Analysts, February 20, 2008
“Preparing
Locally for the Impact of the State Budget”
– Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team,
January 16, 2008
“2008-09 Education Budget: ACSA's Position” - Association of
California School Administrators,
January 10, 2008
“What does a $4.8 billion cut to California public schools look like?”
- State Education Coalition
“Flunk the Budget!” - Facts, sample letter and phone script -
California PTA
Local News
"San Rafael schools face further cuts after
measures fail,"
Marin Independent Journal,
May 26, 2009
"Mill Valley schools face dire
budget outlook,"
Marin Newspointer, April 1, 2009
"Marin Administrator
outlines budget challenges,"
Marin Independent Journal, March 22, 2009
"Businesses offer support to San Rafael schools",
Marin Independent Journal, March 15, 2009
"Drop in tax revenue could mean further cuts to
schools", Marin Independent Journal, March 14,
2009
"Bolinas and Stinson Beach pass school tax",
Marin Independent Journal, March 3, 2009
"Novato holds off on plan to cut 59 teachers",
Marin Independent
Journal, February 10, 2009
"Novato schools plan would cut
60 teachers and all sports",
Marin Independent Journal, February 3, 2009
"San Rafael seeks comment on
school budget cuts",
Marin Independent Journal, February 2, 2009
"Local education leaders offer ways to fix state's
budget crisis", Marin Independent Journal,
January 29, 2009
"Novato schools desperate to make up for state
cuts",
Marin Independent Journal, January 27, 2009
"Trouble in
Paradise - There is really a different kind of desperation in people's
faces...",
Don Speich, Pacific Sun, January 23, 2009
"Marin: State of State lacked details",
Marin Independent Journal,
January 16, 2009
"State crisis drives Marin schools toward
layoffs",
Marin Independent Journal, January 14, 2009
"State board freezes funding for Marin school,
housing projects",
Marin Independent Journal,
December 17, 2008
"Marin
braces for bad news",
Marin Independent Journal, December 14, 2008
"Marin now looking to chop another $6 million from
county budget",
Marin Independent Journal,
November 25, 2008
"Marin County government faces $23 million
deficit",
Marin Independent Journal, October 29, 2008
"Huffman calls for state budget reforms; educators
unhappy",
Marin Independent Journal, September 15,
2008
"Cuts in the Ross Valley School District",
Marin Independent Journal, August 20, 2008
"Governor Proposes One-Cent Sales Tax",
San Francisco Chronicle, August 5, 2008
"San
Rafael Schools Face Budget Cuts",
Marin Independent Journal, June 21, 2008
"Mill Valley Proposes Parcel Tax",
Mill Valley Herald,
June 11, 2008
"School Taxes Pass in Nicasio, Ross and Bolinas",
Marin Independent
Journal, June 3, 2008
"Analyst calls lottery gamble too optimistic",
San Francisco
Chronicle, May 20, 2008
"EDUCATION
- the unkindest cuts of all",
Pacific Sun, May 9, 2008
"Novato school trustees reinstate $800,000 in
programs",
Marin Independent Journal, May 8, 2008
"May 15 day of truth for school layoffs",
Novato Advance, April 30, 2008
"Rallying against school cuts",
Novato Advance, April 30, 2008
"San
Rafael rally rips state education cuts", Marin Independent
Journal, April 25, 2008
"Rally set to rail against budget cuts",
Marin Independent Journal, April 23, 2008
"More jobs added to schools' layoff list",
Marin
Independent Journal,
April 23, 2008
"Students,
teachers protest cuts",
Novato Advance, March
26, 2008
"Novato students, parents resume protest of proposed budget cuts",
Marin Independent Journal,
March 25, 2008
"Californians upset by school funding plan",
San Francisco Chronicle,
March 20, 2008
“Novato
students protest cuts to education”,
Marin Independent Journal, March 19, 2008
“Students: Were not gonna take it”,
Novato Advance, March 19, 2008
“School for at-risk is at-risk, itself”,
Novato Advance,
March 19, 2008
“Larkspur
lays off 3 part-time teachers”,
Marin Independent Journal, March 14, 2008
“San
Rafael schools ready to issue pink slips”,
Marin Independent Journal, March 11, 2008
“95
school jobs at risk in Novato”, Marin
Independent Journal, March 6, 2008
“At
least 50 to get layoff notices in Novato school district”,
Marin Independent Journal, February 27, 2008
“Marin
schools face layoffs after state cuts”,
Marin Independent Journal, February 26, 2008
“Ross
Valley school parents told to brace for cuts”,
Marin Independent Journal, February 11, 2008
“Budget
cuts would hit students and needy”,
Marin Independent Journal,
January 12, 2008
Editorials and Opinion Articles
"Supermajority rule: good or bad?",
Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2009
"Board right to ask for parcel tax",
Novato Advance, March 18, 2009
"State budget deadlock signals need for reforms",
Marin Independent Journal, March 3, 2009
"United to fix budget process",
Marin Independent Journal, February 22, 2009
"An era of budget
embarrassment", Marin Independent Journal,
December 12, 2008
"Budget crunch puts schools on cutting board,"
Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee, October 28, 2008
"GOP lawmakers hide behind anti-tax facade",
Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee, September 26, 2008
"Budget
standoff shows need for serious reform",
Marin Independent Journal,
September 19, 2008
"Budget debacle forcing schools to make hard
choices",
Marin Independent Journal,
September 2, 2008
"Resolving the State's Budget Crisis",
by Assemblymember Jared Huffman,
Marin Independent Journal,
July 31, 2008
"It is Time for Budget Agreement",
Marin Independent Journal,
August 11, 2008
"State budget mess is another sign of failed
leadership", Marin Independent Journal, July 22, 2008
"Missed
opportunities in proposed budget",
Marin Independent Journal, July 7, 2008
"Blueprint for leadership",
Marin Scope, June 30,
2008
"Don't gamble with schools",
Marin Independent Journal, June 22,
2008
"Marin Voices: Connecting the education
dots",
Marin Independent Journal, May 20, 2008
"California confronts a budget deficit with more
gimmicks", Sacramento Bee, May 14, 2008
"Analysis: Schwarzenegger faces rough
sledding on state budget negotiations", Sacramento Bee,
May 14, 2008
"Making a Case for School Funding",
Marin Independent Journal, April 29, 2008
"Expanding budget deficit bugs Capitol",
Sacramento Bee,
April 21, 2008
"Remember
Twain's words",
Marin Independent Journal,
April 12, 2008
“Education
cuts can do great harm”,
Marin Independent Journal,
March 20, 2008
"School cuts call for big solutions",
Novato Advance, March 19, 2008
“State
budget deficit requires forward thinking”,
Marin Community United, Marin Independent Journal,
March
13, 2008
“Governor
needs lesson in honesty”,
Marin Independent Journal, January 10, 2008
“Reinstate
car fee and save schools”, Novato Advance,
February 20, 2008
“Baby
boomers' financial mistakes one cause of school cuts”,
Novato Advance, March 19, 2008
"California's education system headed in wrong direction",
Marin Scope Newspapers, March 19, 2008
"This year's budget crisis: Does anyone know
the end game?", California School Board
Association, Spring 2008
Events
"Budget and Cash Flow
Meeting", December 17, 2008
Meeting Materials
"School
Services of California Webcast Panelists Discuss State's Dismal Fiscal
Picture", School Services of California, December 3, 2008
Fiscal Crisis and Management
Team (FCMAT) Budget Update, Joel Montero, CEO, November 19, 2008
FCMAT Presentation
School Services
Report on Reserves
Marin County Rally Supporting
Education and Opposing Budget Cuts
Brookside School in San
Anselmo - March 6, 2008
Click on these links for
television news coverage:
http://cbs5.com/local/school.tax.increase.2.671526.html
http://www.ktvu.com/video/15520623/index.html
Click on this link for radio coverage:
http://www.kcbs.com/State-Democrats-Urge-Tax-Hike/1779876
Click on this link for the Marin Independent Journal article about
the rally:
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_8484673
Click
on this link for a picture slide show of the rally:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kranjams/SacramentoComesToBrookside
Student Rally Protesting
Budget Cuts in the Novato Unified School District, March 18, 2008
Click on this link for the
Marin Independent Journal about the rally:
http://www.marinij.com/ci_8620773
Novato Unified School
District Rally Supporting
Education and Opposing Budget Cuts
Novato High School - March
24, 2008
Click on this link for the Marin Independent Journal
about the rally:
http://www.marinij.com/ci_8687307
Parent and Community Rally
Marin Civic Center - April 25, 2008
Click on this link for the Marin Independent Journal
about the rally:
http://www.marinij.com//ci_9061830?IADID=Search-www.marinij.com-www.marinij.com
Day of Education Countywide
Rallies - May 14, 2008
 
 
 
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