News Impacting CA Schools for the Week Ending May 14
Sacramento
The Friday release of Governor’s May Revise makes for a short news cycle. Press coverage is limited and by Monday there will be something else to focus. The Cliff Notes version is that Governor’s May Revise proposes more cuts and no new revenues which makes for a long summer of budget negotiations. In response, the California School Board Association offered a comment (In these dire circumstances, we are given no choice but to take drastic measures to fix our broken education finance system.) that foreshadows an announcement expected this week.
Reforming State and Local Governance
Public pensions continue to a punching bag as politicians like to score points with voters in this election year. However, the voters may reason to be concerned. Legislation in the state Capitol aimed at stopping public employee pension spiking has morphed into a giveaway to workers that would increase their retirement benefits and shut off public access to records about the payments.
As the California Teacher Association turned signatures to repeal corporate tax benefits approved by the Legislature, the biggest tax break (Prop 13) to California corporations is receiving more scrutiny. Since the passage of Proposition 13 three decades ago, residential property owners have borne an increasingly larger proportion of the property tax. Commercial property owners have been able to “exploit huge loopholes in the law to avoid reassessment upon a change in ownership” that would have led them to pay higher taxes. This study goes into the county by county detail.
School Districts Impacts
School districts across the State finalized layoff notices to teachers and the reality of state budget cuts is settling in. The first signs of actually salary rollbacks are starting to show up in tentative agreements. In Saddleback, under a tentative agreement that is yet to be ratified by union membership, teachers will make 9.72 percent in total pay concessions, including a 2.85 percent salary cut, higher health insurance costs and furlough days. In Poway, employees ratified a 4.3% reduction.
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