Dems’ budget, Take 2: Prop 98 with a twist
Big cuts for education if revenues don't come
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Giving K-12 and community colleges more money with one hand and taking it away with the other, Democratic leaders are proposing a balanced budget that would fund K-12 schools at last year’s level while meeting the state obligation to education under Proposition 98. They are doing this without $10 billion in temporary taxes that Republicans refuse to extend. No easy feat, this is budgeting with a twist – of the arm of education groups, which could sue over budget maneuvers (but probably won’t).
Nine days ago, Democratic lawmakers passed a state budget by majority vote, which Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed. Today they will try again, only with Brown’s full support. After months
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As the nation’s colleges and universities struggle with limited budgets and greater demands for increased degree completions, states are once again looking at performance-based funding as a way to increase efficiency and reward institutions for access and success. Earlier models of performance-based funding encountered well-deserved resistance and criticism and were often short-lived. Adopting performance-based funding is [...]