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October 2011
 | CSBA President Martha Fluor fields a reporter’s questions at last month’s press conference announcing a lawsuit over Proposition 98 violations in the state budget. Looking on are CSBA Executive Director Vernon Billy and President-elect Jill Wynns. |
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25 October 2011 - A record number of school districts are at the "brink of insolvency” through no fault of their own following three years of cuts in state public education funding.
25 October 2011 - Hoping for up to $100 million to help make early learning and wellness programs available to more children from low-income families, California officials submitted an application on the Oct. 19 deadline for the new federal Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge competitive grants.
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The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers improperly disregarded Proposition 98’s minimum funding guarantee for education when they diverted billions of dollars in general fund revenues that should have gone to public schools, using the money to pay for other state services instead.
CSBA's Board of Directors ultimately decided that no member of the Legislature who voted in favor of Assembly Bill 114 could be recognized by CSBA as “outstanding,” CSBA President Martha Fluor reports in her monthly column.
The threat of midyear state budget cuts is “on everyone’s mind,” CSBA Assistant Executive Director for Governmental Relations Rick Pratt said at the outset of the association’s annual Back-to-School Webcast Sept. 22.
A new “member benefits area” at the CSBA Pavilion will serve as an interactive hub for those attending the association’s 2011 Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego Dec. 1-3.
California’s public schools set a new record for academic achievement in the state’s 2010-11 Accountability Progress Report and the number of students passing the California High School Exit Examination—but unprecedented numbers of schools are also facing federal Program Improvement restrictions.
The CSBA Nominating Committee voted to put forward Jack Bedell and Jo Lucey as candidates for 2011 Vice President and Cindy Marks forward for President-elect.
To qualify for the waivers, “a State must develop a rigorous and comprehensive plan addressing the three critical areas that are designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps and increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction,” according to an Obama administration fact sheet.
Formal adoption of Parent Empowerment regulations and the distribution of School Improvement Grants were among the items on the State Board of Education's agenda last month, but the most significant issues may have been those dealing with charter schools.
Gov. Jerry Brown, to legislators, on bills to be signed or vetoed: “I have to say to some, ‘Fasten your seat belt, 'cause this is going to be a rough ride.’ They’ve given me 600 bills and there’s not 600 problems that we need those solutions for.”