FORMAL TITLE
Proposition 1B: Education Funding. Payment Plan.
FINAL RESULT – 62.5% NO
For full results, visit the LA Times' Elections Results page.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
- Proposition 1B seeks to gain more funding for the California education system, including K-12 school districts and community colleges.
- State budget cuts have cost the educational system billions of dollars, and Proposition 1B seeks to pay back the lost money to these districts beginning in 2011.
- Proposition 1B itself is just an amendment to California Proposition 98, which was passed in 1998. School districts will only receive money in 2011 if Proposition 1B is passed.
- After Prop 98 passed, the governor's office decided that their calculations were incorrect, and that the school system should receive $8 billion less than Prop 98 had allotted.
- Prop 1B seeks to correct this error and make sure the school districts get that $8 billion.
WHERE WOULD THIS MONEY COME FROM?
The money is question would come from the Supplemental Education Payment Account.
WHO SUPPORTS IT?
- Budget Reform Now
- California Teacher's Association.
WHO IS AGAINST IT?
- The LA Times
- The Urban Habitat Program
- The Bus Riders Union of Los Angeles
WHAT DOES THE LA TIMES THINK?
The Los Angeles Times' editorial board opposes Proposition 1B.
WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION?
Follow these links to find more information about Proposition 1B and other measures on the May 19 ballot.
California Legislative Analyst's Office
California School Board Association
WHERE CAN I FIND MORE NEWS ABOUT PROPOSITION 1B?
Los Angeles Times - "No on Proposition 1B" (April 30)
Los Angeles Times - "Survey finds California school funding dilemma" (April 30)
Los Angeles times - "California budget fixes on May 19 ballot are mostly shams and frauds" (April 27)
Los Angeles Times - "Proposition 1B would provide $9.3 billion for California schools" (April 22)
San Francisco Chronicle - "Prop. 1A. tied to Prop. 1B to fund schools" (April 16)
Central Coast News (KION) - "State Special Election: Prop 1B" (April 16)
Appeal-Democrat.com - "Our View: Sacramento readies its doomsday scenarios" (April 9)
Sacramento Bee - "Teachers give $2 million toward Proposition 1B" (March 29)
San Mateo Daily Journal - "Proposition would ensure school funding"
Redding Record-Searchlight - "Schools chief threatens lawsuit should ballot initiatives fail" (April 9)
WHERE CAN I FIND THE FULL TEXT?
Right here. This is the full text of "Proposition 1B: Education Funding. Payment Plan." According to the Secretary of State's office, it is subject to change. The original version can be found here.
"That Section 8.3 is added to Article XVI thereof, to read:
Sec. 8.3 (a) School districts and community college districts shall receive supplemental education payments in the total amount of nine billion three hundred million dollars ($9,300,000,000). These payments shall be in lieu of the maintenance factor amounts, if any, that would otherwise be determined pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 8 for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 fiscal years. These payments are not subject to subdivision (e) of Section 8. These payments shall be made only from the Supplemental Education Payment Account, subject to the deposit into that account of the amounts necessary to make the payments. The operation of this section is contingent upon the establishment of the Supplemental Education Payment Account pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 20.
(b) Commencing with the 2011-2012 fiscal year, in addition to the amounts required to be allocated pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (e) of Section 8, the Legislature annually shall appropriate to school districts and community college districts the amount transferred to the Supplemental Education Payment Account pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 20 in satisfaction of the supplemental education payments required by subdivision (a), until the full amount of the supplemental education payments required by subdivision (a) has been allocated pursuant to this section.
(c) (d) Of the appropriations made to school districts for the 2011-2012 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b), an amount not exceeding two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available only for the purposes set forth in Section 42238.49 of the Education Code as that section read on March 28, 2009, as determined pursuant to the funding formula set forth in that section.
(2) The remaining amount of the appropriations made to school districts for the 2011-2012 fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (b) for each subsequent fiscal year, shall be allocated as an adjustment to revenue limit apportionments, as specified by statute, in a manner that does not limit a recipient school district with regard to the purpose of the district for which the moneys may be extended.
(d) All amounts appropriated in a fiscal year pursuant to this section shall be deemed allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B for that fiscal year, for purposes of determining, in the following fiscal year, the amount required pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3), as applicable of subdivision (b) of Section 8."
Compiled by Jessica Roy / LA Times
Photo: Children outside of Longfellow Elementary School in Compton. Proposition 1B would help to fund K-12 education. Credit: Luis Sinco / LA Times
