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June 2011
 | Caryn Payzant, left, shares effective grassroots advocacy strategies at CSBA’s Legislative Action Conference last month while fellow panelists, school board members and CSBA regional leaders Ed Honowitz, Sherri Reusche and Tami Gunther listen. |
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30 June 2011 - The 100-page education trailer bill (AB 114) arrived on the Senate floor late Tuesday night and was immediately taken up for a vote. The version of the bill that was voted on was never heard in any committee, nor was it made available for public review and comment. Two especially troubling provisions -- relating to AB 1200 fiscal controls and certificated employee layoffs -- were described in CSBA's budget summary that was released on Wednesday.
29 June 2011 - For K-12, the dollar amount available to schools in 2011-12 will be essentially the same as it was in 2010-11. However, an additional $2.1 billion deferral that the governor proposed in January, legislators approved in March and the governor retracted in May, is back in. This will bring the total K-12 cross-year deferral to $9.4 billion.
In California School News
Changes rejuvenated CSBA’s Legislative Action Conference this year, much the way an innovative “buycott” replaced the familiar boycott strategy for community activism in the Pasadena Unified School District.
New CSBA Executive Director Vernon Billy greeted the association’s Delegate Assembly at its meeting in Sacramento May 14-15 with “a vision of CSBA that can be explained in four words: forward thinking, strategic positioning.”
Fluor: "Since at least 2005, a majority of our time in Delegate Assembly and Legislative Action has been spent fighting to protect our precious resources."
If permanent regulations are not on the books by October the regulatory drafting process will have to begin all over again.
Paul H. Chatman and Emma Turner join NSBA's National Black Caucus of School Board Members.
The California Association of Latino Superintendents and Administrators' summer institute is on the theme “Eliminating the Achievement Gap Through Leadership.”
The higher level of revenue in 2011-12, plus some proposed policy changes, would increase the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee by about $3 billion next year.
Hotel rooms near the San Diego Convention Center include the San Diego Marriott Marquis and Marina, which is the headquarters hotel, the adjacent Manchester Grand Hyatt, and the nearby Holiday Inn San Diego on the Bay.
CSBA has joined forces with Northwest Capital Recovery Group, which can analyze utility bills for overcharges and, at no risk or out-of-pocket costs, recover significant savings for cash-strapped local educational agencies.