California Governor’s K-12 Education Budget 2015-2016
District Leadership
The 2013 Budget Act provided $1.25 billion in one‑time Proposition 98 General Fund to support the implementation of the Common Core state standards. The 2015-16 Budget proposes more than $1.1 billion in discretionary one‑time Proposition 98 funding for school districts, charter schools and county offices of education to further their investments in the implementation of Common Core.
These new dollars will also help support implementation of newly adopted English Language Development standards and California’s Next Generation Science standards, as well as make the investments necessary to support new responsibilities required under the evolving accountability structure of the Local Control Funding Formula.
Of this amount, $20 million will be provided to county offices of education, distributed on the basis of countywide ADA and the number of school districts within the county office’s jurisdiction. The balance of this funding will be distributed to school districts and charter schools on the basis of ADA (approximately $170 per student).
