The Wonderful World of CA School Funding...

So, the fiscal year starts July 1...so we are in 2010-2011..if you took the time out to go to a school site council meeting, you would be able to see that we schools ALWAYS do our budgets based on estimates because the state legislators don't bother to do their budgets until after we HAVE to do ours;-) 


Welcome to the wonderful world of politics...the CA state legislators didn't bother to pass a 2010-2011 budget until October 8, 2010. Should all the school children miss the first 6-7 weeks of school because of internecine fighting?http://www.wclp.org/Resources/WCLPContent/tabid/1088/smid/3613/ArticleID/703/t/-2010-2011-California-Budget-Passed-on-100th-Day-of-Fiscal-Year/Default.aspx


State law requires teachers be notified by March15th if they may be laid off, so they have time to look for work before the new school year. The governor presents his budget in January and the legislature hasn't bother to get around to their "mandated" deadline of June 30th 17 times in the past 25 years...http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/02/us/as-california-borrows-time-other-states-scrape-together-some-budget-solutions.html


Beleaguered school districts actually present  THREE proposed budgets (best, moderate, and worst cases) because nothing's written in stone until after the legislature passes the budget, maybe somewhere in the Fall or Winter...That is when the "real" budget gets okay'd...