Roughly half of the surplus is required by law to be spent on education. That leaves “only” roughly $49 billion in discretionary money. We break that down. ⤵️
Today’s budget proposal would assuage some of the fiscal concerns from education officials by tweaking the way that school districts get state funding. Under the governor’s plan, districts will have the option of being funded based on a combination of current enrollment and pre-pandemic attendance rates. That’s a change in policy from Newsom’s January budget, which proposed allowing districts to use a three-year daily attendance average.
In total, districts will receive $22,850 per student, a historic high. About $16,991 of that per-pupil funding will come from Proposition 98, a state constitutional amendment that requires the state to set a certain amount of its discretionary funding aside for education. Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, a Long Beach Democrat who leads the education committee, said given the state’s record surplus, the governor’s budget should be allocating even more to public education.
Specifically, O’Donnell said that overall funding awarded directly to school districts should be hiked by 15% and money for school facilities should be more than doubled to $10 billion.
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