Suit to say schools owed $2 b more
CSBA, ACSA contend money diverted from Prop 98
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In a lawsuit they’ll announce Wednesday, school boards and school administrators associations will contend that the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown shorted K-12 schools and community colleges $2.1 billion owed to them under Proposition 98.
The money was diverted form the general fund as part of Brown’s plan to move some state responsibilities to counties and cities. In return, the governor and Legislature issued an IOU in the form of a promise to ask voters no later than November 2012 to raise taxes and repay what was owed to the schools.
But in their suit, the California School Boards Association, the Association of California Schools Administrators and a handful of school districts will argue that that shifting 1.06
