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Here are the education highlights from the 2014-15 California budget negotiations.
Fiscal year covers July of the year mentioned to June 30 of the next year. Example: fiscal year 2014 is July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
Part-time instructors, many who work for decades off the tenure track and at a lower pay rate, have been called “apprentices to nowhere.”
A bill to mandate use of the method will not advance in the Legislature this year in the face of teachers union opposition.
Nearly a third of the 930 districts statewide that reported data had a higher rate of chronic absenteeism in 2022-23 than the year before.
The move puts the fate of AB 2222 in question, but supporters insist that there is room to negotiate changes that can help tackle the state’s literacy crisis.
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Jessica Sawko 10 years ago10 years ago
Thank you for the breakdown of the budget. I have one recommended change – for your Common Core funding – it should actually be new standards funding as Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, and ELD standards are all clearly spelled out in the budget language. Thanks again for the summary.
navigio 10 years ago10 years ago
so what happens to the contribution to teachers who were hired after 2013?
also, dynamic graphs with related data that have different axis scales are confusing.. 🙂
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John Fensterwald 10 years ago10 years ago
navigio: The increase for teachers and administrators hired after Jan. 1, 2013 would be less. They are currently paying 8 percent of their paychecks. That will rise to 8.08 percent next year and top off at 9.21 percent in 2016-17, compared with 10.25 percent of pay for veteran teachers. As a group, they would contribute $1 million more into the system next year and a projected $98 million more by 2020-21, as more of them … Read More
navigio: The increase for teachers and administrators hired after Jan. 1, 2013 would be less. They are currently paying 8 percent of their paychecks. That will rise to 8.08 percent next year and top off at 9.21 percent in 2016-17, compared with 10.25 percent of pay for veteran teachers. As a group, they would contribute $1 million more into the system next year and a projected $98 million more by 2020-21, as more of them are hired, according to the LAO report on the state budget.
Lydia 10 years ago10 years ago
Just because the state claims it's giving an amount to schools, doesn't mean they are. If we could just get what the state claims we're going to get, we'd be fine! What's in the state budget is quite different than actual monies received. Go to your superintendent of schools to see what your local district receives vs. what was promised. It was explained to me, the state borrows from the amount promised, and just … Read More
Just because the state claims it’s giving an amount to schools, doesn’t mean they are. If we could just get what the state claims we’re going to get, we’d be fine! What’s in the state budget is quite different than actual monies received. Go to your superintendent of schools to see what your local district receives vs. what was promised. It was explained to me, the state borrows from the amount promised, and just never gets caught up.