Tag: State Budget

  • Community Meetings On Best Use of New School Funds Begin

    By Kyla Calvert For the first time in years, budget planning for San Diego Unified School District could include adding programs and services instead of cutting them. When Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his proposal for next year’s budget, it included using unexpected revenues to pay back the state’s $6.1 billion debt to public schools. It…

  • Doctors Praise Governor’s Move, But Say Medi-Cal Pay Still Too Low

    By Kenny Goldberg California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget eliminates a planned 10 percent Medi-Cal payment cut that was to be retroactive to 2011. But it still preserves a 10 percent cut to Medi-Cal rates going forward. Approximately 8.5 million Californians have Medi-Cal coverage, including more than 350,000 people in San Diego County. And thanks…

  • Gov. Brown’s Formula for Funding Neediest School Districts

    By Will Carless Now that the state’s budget deficit has been taken care of, Gov. Jerry Brown is on another mission. He wants to radically reform the way California school districts are funded, taking decision-making out of the hands of Sacramento bureaucrats and placing it under the purview of school district administrators. “We’re investing in…

  • Brown Proposes Restructuring School Funds to Benefit Low-Income Students

    By Kyla Calvert Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget would start five years of increases to California’s K-12 funding. It would bring an increase of $2.7 billion next year and dramatically change the way that funding is delivered. Much of the state’s school funding is now tied to specific programs, but under Brown’s proposal, districts would…

  • Shorter School Year Could Hit Immigrant Families Hardest

    By Will Carless If anyone in San Diego knows the value of education, it’s Fatima Abdelrahman. Five years ago, Abdelrahman arrived in City Heights from Darfur, Sudan, with her five children. None of her kids had ever been to school before arriving in the United States. At first, her children struggled. They sat in classes…