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 From the July 2011 Riverside County Education Update:
Superintendent's Message
Kenneth M. Young
Riverside County
Superintendent of Schools
Some of the Worst Political Actions to Affect Public Education Policy in a Generation
Assembly Bill 114, signed by Governor Brown on June 30 as part of his commitment to deliver a "balanced," on-time state budget, is based on a number of exceedingly optimistic revenue assumptions. While this optimism has become status quo in recent state budgets, our state leaders have always upheld the financial standards and criteria for California's public schools adopted by the State Board of Education in forecasting their revenues conservatively rather than optimistically. Now, under the provisions of AB 114, the state has literally compelled school districts to ignore those standards when projecting their revenues for this new school year. (AB 114:,"For the 2011-12 fiscal year, notwithstanding any of the standards and criteria adopted by the state board [of education] . . . each school district budget shall project the same level of revenue . . . as it received in the 2010-11 fiscal year.")
Determining staffing and program needs has always been left to the decisions of local school districts. Now the state has unilaterally mandated the staffing and program levels of every school district in the state. AB 114 requires school districts to maintain the same level of employee staffing and programs in the 2011-2012 school year as they had in 2010-2011 - regardless of whether or not they need the same level. (AB 114: "For the 2011-12 fiscal year . . . each school district budget shall . . . maintain staffing and program levels commensurate with that level [2010-2011].") Read more >>
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