News Impacting CA School Districts Through May 7
Federal News
A half-dozen school districts , including Los Angeles Unified, will direct California’s second-round application to the federal Race to the Top competition. They must not only fight a tight deadline – June 1 for submission – but also the low odds of moving from 27th among states in the first round to the top 12 or 15 to get a piece of the remaining $3.4 billion
Sacramento News
The economy still appears to be recovering slowly as April personal income tax revenues are below last year’s by one billion dollars.
Reforming State and Local Governance
Backers of an initiative to lower the requirement to pass a budget to a simple majority turned over a million signatures in hopes of qualifying for the November ballot.
School District Impacts
The strike at Capistrano school district ended with the teachers accepting nearly all of the terms of the 10.1 percent pay cut imposed by the school board in March, including furlough days, increases in health insurance costs and salary concessions. The district begins restoring teacher pay upon receiving at least $1.7 million in state funding above current projections. Teachers would get 60 percent of these additional funds. First to be restored would be the furlough days that are student instructional days.
On May 5 nine school districts received news on their parcel taxes elections. Seven districts were successful and two failed. Four Bay Area school districts passed parcel taxes. For a complete list of list results and pending school parcel taxes go to Ballotpedia CA Parcel Taxes.
Furlough deals continue to be approved for the coming year. Manteca teachers accepted a defacto pay cut which shortens the school year with the elimination of five school days. Menifee teacher accepted furloughs of professional development days. Anaheim Union High School teachers accepted a furlough of six days with the impact on instructional days to be determined.
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