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February 2016

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Budget Highlights Major elements of Gov. Brown's proposed budget: • With settle-up payments and adjustments due schools from prior years, K-14 spending increases by $5.4 billion. • An allocation of $2.8 billion for the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), an amount equal to 5.4 percent growth in spending. • $1.2 billion to school districts in one-time discretionary funding. • $61 million to cover projected charter school student enrollment increases. • $22.9 million for a 0.47 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for categorical programs not covered by the LCFF. • $300 million for one-time funding for career technical education (CTE) competitive grants, with priority given to the establishment of new high-quality CTE programs and dropout prevention. • Consolidation of the current funding for the State Preschool Program, transitional kindergarten, and the Preschool Quality Rating and Improvement System grant into a new block grant program that totals $1.6 billion. • For community colleges, $114.7 million in general purpose apportionments, equal to a 2 percent increase in per-student funding. • A 0.47 percent COLA to community colleges at a cost of $29.3 million. • $283 million for deferred maintenance and $200 million in increases for the Strong Workforce Program at community colleges. For more information on the proposal's details, see cta.org/budget. 30 revenues and other state income flowing in from a recovering economy. (Prop. 30 was passed by voters in 2012. It increased per- sonal income taxes over seven years for California residents with an annual income over $250,000, and increased the state sales tax by 0.25 percent over four years.) Indeed, Brown noted in his State of the State Address in January that the strong economic recovery and passage of Prop. 30 has allowed a 51 percent increase in overall education spending from a low of $47.3 billion in 2011. "It's been nearly four years since voters passed Prop. 30 to pay back schools and colleges the $50 billion lost during the recession," says CTA President Eric Heins. "Educators are "We are moving in the right direction, but with Prop. 30 set to sunset at the end of 2018, it's critical that we continue our investment in all California students by temporarily extending the tax increase on the wealthiest Californians." Eric Heins CTA president Source: California Department of Finance (dof.ca.gov) In Gov. Brown's proposed budget, the state's Proposition 98 K-12 per-pupil funding would rise to $10,591 in 2016-17, up $368 from the current year and an increase of nearly $3,600 compared with 2011-12. See explanation of Prop. 98 funding in chart on next page. California K-12 Per-Pupil Spending $18,000 $14,000 $12,000 $10,000 $8,000 $6,000 $4,000 $2,000 $0 2014–15 $9,920 2015–16 $10,223 2016–17 $10,591 Proposition 98 *Proposed budget 33 February 2016

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