CA Finance News Through July 24
Federal News
Work on continues on the development of common state standards. A draft copy of common state standards was leaked and made available on the Internet.
California could lose out on millions of federal education dollars unless legislators change a law that prevents it from using student test scores to measure teachers’ performance, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is expected to announce in a speech today.
Sacramento News
The budget deal was reached on Monday night. Cities and counties were not happy, the teacher’s union were split on supporting the budget deal and the newspapers had unfavorable headlines regarding the budget deal. The California High School Exit Exam survived though not for special needs students. Ron Bennett, from School Services of California, provided an explanation of what budget deal meant to K-12 education. The Senate had approved the budget deal on Friday morning and the Assembly was still voting.
Reforming State and Local Governance
Los Angeles columnist Michael Hiltzik commented on the flawed effort to reform taxes via the Commission on the 21st Century Economy.
Phil Ting, San Francisco County Assessor, continues his crusade to change Prop 13.
Jon Fleischman from the Flash Report shares his perspective why he still believes in term limits.
Over 50 Alameda residents who took an online survey believe changes are needed including protecting local revenues, reducing the 2/3 requirement for local tax approval, better budgeting practices at the State level and modifying term limits. The complete results are here.
If you are on Facebook, you can join hundreds of other elected officials in supporting Rebuilding California. The Facebook fan page is here.
School District Impacts
With State revenues dropping more and more school district are looking to parcel taxes. Long Beach approved passing a tax on the 2010 ballot while San Diego will pay over $125,000 to study the parcel tax issue. In the meantime, one San Diego school board members wants more volunteers to help the school district.
Martinez school district’s $500,000 loan from Martinez stalls.
It is official, the Governor signed legislation for King City Joint Union High School District takeover.
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