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Community colleges raise concerns over TK rebenching, proposed deferrals and program cuts in May Revision

3431513 · May 21, 2025
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Summary

Community college officials and the Legislative Analyst’s Office warned a Senate budget subcommittee that the May Revision’s technical change to remove transitional kindergarten rebench funds from the K–12/community college split shifts roughly $492 million and contributes to a proposed $531.6 million apportionment deferral.

The Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Education examined several May Revision proposals affecting the California Community Colleges (CCC), including the administration’s recommendation to exclude transitional kindergarten rebench funding from the K–12/community college Proposition 98 split, a series of technical adjustments and a proposed apportionment deferral.

Justin Harris of the Department of Finance described the administration’s view that TK expansion costs should be aligned to the segment where those costs occur and therefore excluded from the split calculation used to divide Proposition 98…

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