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the staffing notification window for teachers to 60 days after the adoption or subsequent amendment of the
State’s budget for a given fiscal year.
2. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes to eliminate certain State law requirements
that require teachers that have been terminated to receive first priority for substitute assignments and that
these substitutes be paid at the rate they received before they were terminated if they work more than 20
days within a 60-school day period. The State’s Department of Finance estimates the current law
significantly increases costs to school districts that have terminated teachers and may compel additional
layoffs and cuts to classroom spending.
3. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget considers the adoption of reforms in conjunction with
funding allocable through the U.S. Department of Education’s “Race to the Top Fund”. If adopted, the
proposed reforms will, among other things, address statutory and regulatory barriers relating to student
achievement, school quality and teacher and principal quality.
4. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes a reduction of approximately 10% in
funding for administration, overhead and non-instruction related spending by school districts to increase
resources for classroom instruction. In addition, if adopted, the State will prevent school districts from
shifting central administration costs to school sites.
5. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes to fund the Proposition 98 minimum
guarantee for Fiscal Year 2009-10. However, proposed expenditures will be decreased to $49.9 billion
from the $50.4 billion assumed in the Revised 2009-10 State Budget. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget
proposes to fund the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee in Fiscal Year 2010-11 at approximately
$50 billion, which reflects an increase of $103 million from the proposed amount for Fiscal Year 2009-10.
6. The Revised 2009-10 State Budget Act required the State to begin paying an aggregate
amount of $11.2 billion of Proposition 98 maintenance factor payments in Fiscal Year 2010-11. The
2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes to delay the initial payment to Fiscal Year 2012-13.
7. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes to eliminate the sales tax on fuel and
increase the excise tax on gasoline by 10.8 cents to partially replace these revenues. The proposal
contained in the 2010-11 Proposed State Budget Act would have, if adopted, decreased the Proposition 98
expenditures from the State General Fund by approximately $836 million due to the relationship of Test 3
(defined herein) of Proposition 98 and State General Fund revenues. On March 23, 2010, the Governor
approved Assembly Bill No. 6 (“ABx8 6”), a version of the “gas swap” proposal, which will eliminate the
6 percent sales tax on gasoline and replace it with a per gallon excise tax of $0.173. The elimination of the
sales tax on gasoline is expected to reduce the State General Fund. See “CONSTITUTIONAL AND
STATUTORY PROVISIONS AFFECTING DISTRICT REVENUES AND APPROPRIATIONS –
Proposition 98” herein.
8. The 2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes that the State continue its current program
regarding days of instruction until Fiscal Year 2011-12. If adopted, school districts will have flexibility to
reduce instructions by a maximum of five days, if necessary, to accommodate the reductions made in
Fiscal Year 2009-10 without losing any incentive funding they receive to maintain a 180-day school year.
9. Due, in part, to litigation demanding that the State pay or suspend all education mandates,
the 2010-11 Proposed State Budget proposes to suspend almost all K-14 education mandates. The State
expects to pay $7.7 million for mandated costs related to interdistrict and intradistrict transfers and
$6.8 million for mandated costs related to the California High School Exit Exam.
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