If you are like most Californians, you know our schools are in trouble.
And you care deeply about YOUR local school.
But you have not had enough time to study the initiatives
Here is a chance to learn more about Proposition 38—so that when you enter the voting booth, it does not feel like that dreaded pop quiz.
The California State PTA helped write and is supporting Proposition 38 to restore the programs and services that have been cut at all our local schools.
Ready?
Let’s start. (Don’t miss the question for extra points at the end!)
Here is the title of Proposition 38
TAX TO FUND EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS. INITIATIVE STATUTE.
Read the following quotes in italics from the Independent Legislative Analyst and then see if you can answer the quiz.
“Fiscal Effect
Around $10 Billion of Additional Annual State Revenues. In the initial years—beginning in 2013–14—the annual amount of additional state revenues raised would be around $10 billion. …The total revenues generated would tend to grow over time.
Distributes School Funds Through Three Grant Programs.
Proposition 38 requires that CETF school funds be allocated as follows:
Educational Program Grants (70 Percent of Funds). The largest share of funds—70 percent of all CETF school funding—would be distributed based on the number of students at each school. …Educational program grants could be spent on a broad range of activities, including instruction, school support staff (such as counselors and librarians), and parent engagement.
Low-Income Student Grants (18 Percent of Funds). The measure requires that 18 percent of CETF school funds be allocated at one statewide rate based on the number of low-income students (defined as the number of students eligible for free school meals) enrolled in each school. As with the educational program grants, low-income student grants could be spent on a broad range of educational activities.
Training, Technology, and Teaching Materials Grants (12 Percent of Funds). The remaining 12 percent of funds would be allocated at one statewide rate based on the number of students at each school. The funds could be used only for training school staff and purchasing up-to-date technology and teaching materials.
Quiz
- Does Proposition 38 raise about $ 10 billion per year?
- Does Proposition 38 require the funds to be spent at each school based on the number of students?
- Does Proposition 38 provide extra funding for low-income students at their school?
- Does Proposition 38 help teachers with training, technology and teaching materials?
Answer:
Yes to all questions
QUESTION FOR EXTRA POINTS
How much money will your local school receive?
Click here to find out: www.prop38forlocalschools.org/restore.
Now that you’ve taken the quiz, check back again to learn more about Prop 38.
Carol Kocivar is the president of the California Parent Teacher Association.
I put four of my kid's thru school with out the use of any of the FREE programs and fail to seer why I need to pay for someone else's kid's to do so !
if they money was going into the general fund it would be different....but this money is earmarked and will run through 'grant programs'... ...which means most of the money will go to executive pays and perks and very little will actually tickle down to the kids... we pay plenty of taxes to provide good services.... the system is corrupt and the money is being pillaged instead of used for the needs of the students... we the people have to take it upon ourselves to audit these agencies and eliminate the waste because the people pillaging the tax money will not stop themselves...
Like the lottery 38 will do nothing. California needs to start over again and fund the true constitutional requirements. Then with the money left over, pay for social programs. In addition, I want California to be 49th in social programs. Pay our prison guards 10th in the country. Pay our teachers fifth on the country. Pay our legislators 20th in the country. And we only need a part time legislation. How many new laws do we need? California is the leader in chasing business away. Thank you
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It's a GOOD THING that the money doesn't go in the "general fund." Money that goes there gets spent on other things. Never makes it to education. Prop 38 is good for the kids!!!
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1) I disagree with the state budget priority of funding. I would like to see more $ go to K-12 than a high speed rail, prisons etc…. If the state made K-12 more of a priority this wouldn’t need to be a prop. 2)The centralization funding of K-12 schools has failed California K-12 schools as evidence by recent years. I support local funding. 3) Concessions and reforms need to be made by the teachers union. California teacher’s salaries are among the highest in the country, top 10%, but the K-12 schools are in the bottom 20% of national testing. 4) Prop 13 has had the unintentional consequences of being a regressive tax on young. It forces newer home owners and income tax payers to bear more of the burden of funding public K-12 education. Assessment adjusted local property tax revenue funding is a progressive tax that promotes growth and taxes proportionally to value and net worth. 5) Income tax increases are not the method that I support to fund underfunded K-12 schools. I feel that this method increases the burden upon working class earners disproportionately and is a regressive tax.
but we're past the point where throwing money at the problem is going to solve anything...we've got to step in and stop the corruption... every agency blows money as fast as they can so they can scream for more on the theory that someone else will pick up the tab... city, school district, county, state, federal... everyone keeps passing the buck to the next person's tax payer....but there is only one tax payer under all of those layers of taxes ....they all are squeezing the same tax payer .... ...and they're just wasting the money...imperial beach wastes about 50% of their money instead of using it for the basic needs of the city...and the schools do the same thing... here's a perfect example of the insanity: imperial beach has no art programs in the schools, but is has a $200,000/yr graffiti removal program on the budget that doesn't even exist....if the city has $200,000 give it to the schools for an art program and address the issue of graffiti instead of wasting the money and forcing another tax on the state level.: http://libionline.net/rda-blog.html
ib city council person lorie bragg goes to a 'league of cali cities' meeting and comes back with the message: 'we have to waste money faster before the state takes it'... WRONG MESSAGE
in japan teachers are one of the highest paid professions...and they draw the best teachers...and they produce results... AND iv'e yet to meet this demographic of teachers that are bringing in the big bucks or are living lavish retired lives... i live next door to a retired couple ...both teachers....they're just simple people....they don't have lavish amounts of money or great retirements... teachers are line workers....they're not the ones that are pillaging the money because they don't have the ability or access.... and who has the ability and access to pillage tax payer money? it's the ones that are pointing to the line worker as the problem...what a coincidence... we the people can make the changes needed to clean up our government agencies mike...when you look at it on the books it's not that difficult....as a matter of fact it's more than obvious..... but we're going to have to come together and use facts ... not get caught up in ether sides' political agenda....
I would vote for that. Both of these propositions are more of the same old shell game no matter how many times they cry " But it's different this time!"
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