6100 Department of Education
Major Program Changes
  • An increase of approximately $4 billion Proposition 98 General Fund for school districts and charter schools to reflect continued implementation of the local control funding formula.

  • An increase of nearly $900 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund in 2014-15 to eliminate all outstanding K-12 deferral debt.

  • An increase of $273.4 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund for the Emergency Repair Program.

  • An increase of $250 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund to support transitional career technical education incentive grants to local educational agencies, joint power authorities, and regional occupational centers/programs.

  • An increase of $100 million one-time Proposition 98 General Fund for a second-year allocation of Broadband Infrastructure Improvement Grants.

  • An increase of $14.8 million Proposition 98 General Fund and $18.8 million non-Proposition 98 General Fund to support 4,000 State Preschool slots with full-day wraparound care.

  • An increase of $197.6 million in 2014-15 for the school district and county office of education local control funding formulas in 2014-15 to reflect increased ADA. A decrease of $6.9 million in 2015-16 for school districts and county offices of education as a result of decreased ADA for 2015-16.

  • An increase of $59.5 million Proposition 98 General Fund for charter school ADA growth.

  • An increase of $15.3 million Proposition 98 General Fund for Special Education ADA growth.

  • An increase of $71.1 million Proposition 98 General Fund to support a 1.58 percent cost-of-living adjustment for categorical programs that remain outside the local control funding formula, including programs such as Special Education, Child Nutrition, Foster Youth, Preschool, American Indian Centers, and American Indian Early Childhood Education Program.

  • An increase $500 million Proposition 98 General Fund, included in the budget for the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, for a block grant to support programs in elementary and secondary basic skills, classes and courses in citizenship and English as a second language for immigrants, education programs for adults with disabilities, short-term career technical education programs linked to occupations with high employment potential, and programs for apprentices.