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The three-year shortfall starts in 2022-23 and is the largest since the Great Recession, but there is an $8.1 billion rainy day fund to soften the impact.
Kirst , who was president of the State Board of Education for all four of Jerry Brown’s terms as governor, co-authored the Local Control Funding Formula.
The state legislature last year approved $100 million so community college districts could hire more full-time faculty. Now, state auditors will examine charges that some districts spent the money on other costs.
The dome of the California State Capitol Credit: Christopher Schodt for EdSource The dome of the California State Capitol March 17, 2021 California lawmakers working on how to stop fraud at for-profit colleges had to face the reality Tuesday that pushing the regulators to increase protections may end up costing students higher tuition. While legislators pushed for the Bureau for Private and Postsecondary Education to do a better job, bureau officials revealed that it can do so only by increasing fees to the schools they oversee by, in some cases, more than 1,000%. Such fees are routinely pa...