Expensive Constituent:

Excellent news: California rating lifeless final in public schooling spending is over. Because of the 2022-23 state funds signed by Gov. Newsom final week, California might leap into the highest 10 states nationwide for per pupil spending.

For some perspective on how far we have come, as lately as 2011, California ranked 50^th nationwide for per pupil spending on Okay-12 public colleges. By final 12 months, because of our voter-approved progressive tax system and accountable budgeting through the previous decade, California had climbed to 19^th.

The 2022-23 state funds will increase Okay-12 public schooling funding by a document 13% over final 12 months, with the allocation for public Okay-12 colleges and group faculties growing by a document $37.2 billion. That is almost triple the funding Okay-12 colleges obtained in 2011. And every of our UC and CSU campuses will obtain a 5% improve.

Over the approaching weeks, I’ll ship you further e-newsletters highlighting main facets of this 12 months’s historic 2022-23 state funds.

Okay-12 Training Finances Highlights

• Supplies a document funding improve of 13% for all Okay-12 public colleges.

• Protects college districts affected by declining enrollment by offering funding primarily based on the common of three prior years’ common day by day attendance

• Supplies $4 billion to permit colleges so as to add three hours of after-school programming and 6 weeks of summer season enrichment.  

• Contains funding for the Studying Restoration Emergency Block Grant to assist tutoring, psychological well being, social-emotional assist and different studying restoration packages.

• Supplies $3.6 billion for the Arts, Music, and Educational Supplies Discretionary Block Grants to fund arts, music, tutorial supplies, and multi-lingual college library books.

• Funds a complete of $4.2 billion for college building by way of 2025, together with $1.3 billion in state bonds and $2.9 billion from the state’s basic fund in 2023-24 and 2024-25.

• Supplies a document funding improve of $637 million for home-to-school transportation.

• Contains $100 million for California’s common free college meals program to buy sustainably grown, wholesome meals, plus $600 million to improve college kitchens.

Greater Training Finances Highlights

• Will increase funding for all College of California (UC) and California State College (CSU) campuses by 5%.

• Will increase CA Neighborhood School (CCC) funding by $600 million, together with a COLA improve, and gives $650 million for extra instruction to shut pandemic studying gaps and investments to shut the digital divide.

• Supplies an extra $2 billion for pupil housing tasks at UC, CSU, and CCC campuses — bringing the overall quantity of pupil housing funding to $4 billion by way of 2024-25.

• Will increase funding for the Center Class Scholarship program and Cal Grants to offer entry to Cal Grants for 150,000 further college students.

• Supplies unprecedented funding assist for underrepresented college students, together with previously incarcerated college students.

As chair of the Senate’s Finances and Fiscal Evaluate Committee, it was my honor to work on this 12 months’s transformative funds. Please be on the look-out for future e-newsletters from me concerning different main facets of the historic 2022-23 state funds.

It’s a privilege serving as your state Senator.

Sincerely,

Nancy Skinner
State Senator, District 

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