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Reports and Updates
Schools
Chief Jack O'Connell Issues Statement in Support of School Funding
Lawsuit
Robles-Wong, et al. v. State of California
California Education Coalition, Action Steps and Information, May
12, 2010:
Commitment Card Campaign
Commitment Card
Take Action
Talking Points
Sample Op-Ed Piece
Sample Letter to the Editor
"Letter
to the Governor Regarding Pink Slips",
California Education Coalition, March 15, 2010
Association of California School Administrators, March 10, 2010:
ACSA 2010-11 Budget Talking Points
Administrative Cut Talking Points
Legislative Action Day Leave Behind
"2010-11
Budget Press Release Packet",
California Education Coalition, February 24, 2010
"2010-11
Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education",
California Legislative Analyst's Office, February 25, 2010
School Services of
California, Inc. - Pocket Budget '10 - '11 (January 2010)
A Summary
Analysis of the Governor's Proposed 2010-2011 State Budget for
California's Schools
"Position paper of the 2010-11 State
Budget","Position paper of the 2010-11 State
Budget", Association of California School Administrators, February
4, 2010
"Budget: Overview of the Governor's
Budget", California Legislative Analyst's Office, January 12, 2010
"Analysis of the Governor's Proposed Budget",
California School Boards Association, January 8, 2010
"Yet Another Deferral?",
California
School Boards Association, August 19, 2009
"Legislature Approves Budget Revisions",
Frost, Davis and Donnelly, July 27, 2009
"Budget gouges Prop. 98, applies Band-Aid to
state's structural problems", California School Boards
Association, July 24, 2009
"Budget silence is deadly,"
Association of California School Administrators, July 9, 2009
"Prop 98's suspension would deepen 'learning
deficit', educators warn",
California School Boards
Association, July 7, 2009
"Governor proposes $3 Billion suspension of Prop
98", California School Boards Association, July 1,
2009
"Cuts and deferrals stall",
California School Boards Association, June 25, 2009
"Conference Committee Acts on Education - More
Battles to Come", California
Schools Boards Association, June 16, 2009
"Assembly Democrats Push Oil and Tobacco Taxes",
Sacramento Bee, June 15, 2009
"California Budget Deal is a Faint Hope",
Dan Walkers, Sacramento Bee, June 14, 2009
"A Budget Timeline",
Sacramento Bee, June 14, 2009
"Budget
Update: California's Cash Flow Situation Worsens: Educators
Should Be on High Alert",
Association of California
School Administrators, June 12, 2009
State Education Coalition Responds to Governor's
Address to Legislature Regarding Further Cuts, June 2, 2009
Governor's Address to the State Legislature, June
2, 2009
The Basics of Proposition 98 - A Tutorial from The
California Legislative Analyst's Office
"Why supporting schools and funding reform is so
vital,"
Marin Independent
Journal, May 31, 2009
2009-2010 May Revision General Fund Proposals,
Office of the Governor, May 14, 2009
"Local support for local schools",
Marin
Independent Journal, May 10, 2009
May 14,
2009 - Governor's May Revise - Budget Reduction Plans
Updates
and Analysis by Education Organizations:
Association of California
School Administrators
Budget
Advisory: Release of the 2009-2010 May Budget Revision
California School Boards
Association
More May Revision Detail
Governor wants to cut more in current and budget
year
School Services of California
May
Revision to the State Budget - Chasing a Rock Downhill
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
"Novato will hold off closing school until 2012",
Marin Independent Journal, March
3, 2010
"Tamalpais high school district hit with $2.7
million in cuts", Marin
Independent Journal, February 25, 2010
"College of Marin battles $280,000 budget shortfall",
Marin Independent Journal, February 24,
2010
"San Rafael School District warns of 37 layoffs",
Marin Independent Journal,
February 22, 2010
"Dixie School District shelves parcel tax for
now", Marin Independent
Journal, February 17, 2010
"Novato parents beg district to keep schools open",
Marin Independent Journal, February 9,
2010
"Novato considers closing schools due to state cuts",
Marin Independent Journal, February 8,
2010
"Novato trims gifted program in response to state
cuts", Marin Independent
Journal, February 8, 2010
"Educating
Jackie", Marin Magazine, September 2009
"State cuts
force Marin schools to weigh costs of busing",
Marin Independent Journal, August 16, 2009
"Back to school: On your mark...get
cut...go!", Pacific Sun, August 14, 2009
"Mill Valley will have $59.8 million bond measure
for schools",
Marin Independent
Journal, August 6, 2009
"State budget cuts leave Marin's school librarians
in the lurch," Marin Independent Journal, August
2, 2009
"Marin officials assess local damage following
adoption of state budget deal",
Marin Independent
Journal, July 28, 2009
"Marin schools offer to give up funds to
avoid state cuts",
Marin Independent Journal, July 8, 2009
"College of Marin faces $700,000 shortfall",
Novato Advance, July
8, 2009
"Property reassessments hit College of Marin",
Marin Independent Journal, June 25, 2009
"Kentfield board OKs schools budget, cuts
positions",
Marin Independent Journal, June 24, 2009
"Values to be cut on more than
12,000 Marin properties",
Marin Independent Journal, June 23, 2009
"Novato cuts school bus service,"
Marin Independent Journal, June 17, 2009
"Novato to rehire 19 teachers,"
Marin Independent Journal, June 13, 2009
"State cuts could force trims in job training
program,"
Marin Independent Journal, June 9, 2009
"Parcel tax increase wins in Novato,"
Marin Independent
Journal, June 5, 2009
"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
Marin Voice: "Accountability - what a
concept",
Marin Independent Journal,
August 20, 2009
"School librarians a painful casualty of local
budget cuts,"
Marin Independent Journal,
August 11, 2009
Marin Voice - "This summer ride isn't much fun",
Mary Jane
Burke, Marin County Superintendent of Schools,
Marin Independent
Journal, July 16, 2009
"Novato's strong vote of confidence in its
schools,"
Marin Independent Journal, June 7, 2009
"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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