Adjustments to the Budget Balancing Reductions
Restoration of Critical Programs


REVENUE LIMITS
 The May Revision provides significant additional resources in general purpose funding by restoring $841.1 million for school district revenue limits. Specifically, this funding represents the portion of the deficit factor proposed in the Governor's Budget that was in excess of the 2008-09 COLA, as adjusted for revised ADA. This funding is in addition to the $780 million of workload adjustments detailed previously in the Major Workload Adjustments section, resulting in a total increase of $1.6 billion in new general purpose funding.

Therefore, the remaining deficit results only from suspending the budget year COLA. Based on the Governor's Budget proposed statutory change to the K-12 COLA factor to the CPI-W index (4.40 percent), the school district revenue limit deficit is estimated to be 4.214 percent.


SPECIAL EDUCATION
 The May Revision provides a Proposition 98 General Fund increase of $234.1 million over the amount previously proposed in the Governor's Budget. These changes include adjustments for reinstating $189.2 million previously proposed for reduction as a part of budget balancing solutions, and revised figures for local property tax and ADA growth. The proposal also meets the federal maintenance-of-effort requirement for special education programs.


STATE SPECIAL SCHOOLS
 The May Revision includes an increase of $5.1 million Proposition 98 General Fund to help the State Special Schools continue to provide high quality diagnostic services and instruction for students with special needs. The proposal also includes a $1.2 million augmentation for Home-to-School Transportation costs, in addition to General Fund savings of $4.1 million overall as a result of shifting these mass transit costs to the Public Transportation Account.
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CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS for K thru 12 Education Back to Top

 Change in Total K-12 Funding
 Adjustments to the Budget Balancing Reductions
  Additional Savings Proposals Coupled with Flexibility
 image of black pointing arrowRestoration of Critical Programs
 Other Budget Adjustments
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
Revised Budget Summary - K thru 12 Education (pdf * - 256K) -
Provides the entire K thru 12 Education Chapter in pdf format.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Revised Budget Detail - K thru 12 Education
Displays Revised Budget Detail information for K thru 12 Education.

Proposed Budget Summary - K thru 12 Education (January 2008)
Displays Proposed Budget Summary information for K thru 12 Education.