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Reports and Updates
"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
Statewide 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”
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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?”
from the statewide Education Coalition
“Flunk the Budget!” - Facts, sample letter and phone script -
California PTA
Local News
"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
"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 Schools, Spring 2008
Events
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
  
  
District Resolutions
Dixie School District
Marin County
Office of Education
Mill Valley School District
Novato Unified School District
Reed Union School
District
Ross School
District
San Rafael
City Schools
Sausalito Marin City School District
Tamalpais Union High School District
Marin County Youth Commission Resolution to
Protect Students of Marin County
School Funding
Ed Source - Questions and
Answers About California Schools
(November 2006)
The Basics of California's School Finance
System (English)
The Basics of California's School Finance
System (Spanish)
School Services of California, Inc. - Pocket Budget '08 - '09
(January 2008)
A Summary Analysis of the Governor's Proposed
2008-2009 State
Budget for
California's Schools
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