7980 Student Aid Commission
Budget-Balancing Reductions
  • The Budget includes General Fund reductions of $2.2 million in 2008-09.

  • The following programs totaling $930 million have been exempted from the budget balancing reductions: the Cal Grant Program, the Assumption Program of Loans for Education (APLE) Program, and other programs including the Graduate APLE, National Guard APLE, State Nursing APLE, and Nurses in State Facilities APLE. These programs include entitlement payments that cannot be reduced.

  • The major budget balancing reductions include $1.6 million in state operations and $637,000 in the California Student Opportunity and Access Program.