Lawmakers suspend fiscal oversight
Provisions in trailer bill appall school officials
Superintendents, business officers, and budget consultants are expressing bewilderment over demands and restrictions in the education trailer bill – AB 114 – that they say could throw already financially stressed school districts into serious financial jeopardy. School Services of California, which advises many districts on financial issues, has called on Gov. Jerry Brown to veto one particularly worrisome section of the bill that suspends fiscal oversight by county offices of education for the coming year. In adopting the provision, theLegislature “has eclipsed all of its previous low standards for ethics and integrity,” the company wrote on its website.
The 100-page trailer bill was published Wednesday morning, 12 hours after Democrats in
