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What's new

• Advisory: Race to the Top Memorandum of Understanding (12-15-09)
• AB 8 and SB 1: Comparison Chart (12-15-09)
• Race To The Top Talking Points (12-11-09)
• CSBA 2009 Legislative Report Card
• Review of the report of the Commission on the 21st Century Economy (10-12-09) 
• 'The good, the bad and the ugly’: The budget saga continues (July 31, 2009)
• The budget deal: Governor and legislators ‘failed our students’ (7-28-09)
• Budget gouges Prop. 98, applies Band-Aid to state’s structural problems (7-24-09)
• Budget update: Is a budget deal close? (7-16-09)
• The basics of Proposition 98: A tutorial
• Budget update:  Voter anger sets state for action (5-21-09)
• Budget advisory: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Overview and implications for California schools 
• Budget advisory: Flexibility provisions in the 2008 and 2009 state budget
• Sample board resolution on utilizing flexibility authorized by SBX3 4
• Overview of the May 19 ballot initiatives
• CSBA's positions on the May 19 ballot initiatives 
• Sample board resolution on May 19 ballot initiatives

CSBA Budget Resources

• Central School District: Multi-year Budget Update and Considerations 2009-12
• Budget Advisory: Revisions to the 2008 and 2009 state budget (October 2009)
• Tier I, II and III programs and their cuts (from the February Budget Act)
• 2009 federal stimulus summary: Analysis from CSBA's Governmental Relations Department
• Legislature approves a budget: Schools facing major reductions: Analysis from CSBA's Governmental Relations Department 
• ‘Colossal budget gap’ puts state ‘on the edge’
• Budget imbroglio takes new twists and turns: Analysis from CSBA’s Governmental Relations Department
• Budget Advisory: Implications of a late budget on K-adult program apportionments
• California School News: Unfinished budget business may keep lawmakers in Sacramento as conventions beckon
• California School News: CSBA, other groups push for school spending as rumors of budget deal swirl
• Committee OKs budget; leadership continues to meet
• Budget update: No action, but lots of posturing
• Committee OKs budget; leadership continues to meet
• Budget update: June 15 deadline slips by again
• State Senate ups the ante on education funding
• California School News: Assembly panel’s proposal would boost school funding
• CSBA analysis of Governor's May revise
• CSBA news release on 2008-09 budget reaction
• CSBA news release on state-of-the-state reaction
• State of the State: CSBA warns against cuts in education
• CSBA's 2008-09 budget summary 
• CSBA Captures Media Attention 
• 2008-09 Budget Proposal (link to California Department of Finance)
• LAO's 2008-2009 Overview of the Governor's Budget