California School Funding: What’s Different Now That The May Revise Has Been Released?
What’s different for the grassroots movement to fund schools with a 2/3 legislative vote by extending revenues, now that the May revise has been released? In short, nothing. Keep calling State Senators and Assemblymembers, and visiting your legislators in their district offices. School funding is still at risk, because while the unanticipated tax windfall helps in school year ’11-’12, it doesn’t address the long-term funding cliff schools still face after June 30, 2011.
Let me back up. The “May revise” happens every year, when the governor reviews the state’s financial picture after spring tax collection, and reissues his statement on the budget before the books must be closed out at the end of the state’s fiscal year on the last day of June.
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The Legislative Analyst’s Office has this to say:
The administration identifies a $9.6 billion remaining budget problem based on generally reasonable 2010-11 and 2011-12 revenue and expenditure assumptions. The Governor’s plan to