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Assembly subcommittee reviews community college funding: COLA, enrollment growth and formula fixes debated
Summary
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 heard presentations and questions about the governor's proposals for a 2.43% COLA, modest enrollment growth funding, and technical changes to the Student-Centered Funding Formula (SCFF), including requests to lift a 10% local growth cap and use a greater-of-current-year-or-3-year-average for apportionments.
Assemblymember Alvarez, chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance, opened a May hearing on the California Community Colleges' budget proposals, pressing for details on how each item would improve graduation rates and access to higher education.
Justin Hurst of the Department of Finance described the governor's apportionment proposals for the Student-Centered Funding Formula (SCFF). "The governor's budget proposes a cost of living adjustment at the rate of 2.43% in the amount of 230,400,000 proposition 98 general fund for apportionments," Hurst said, and he added the budget proposes funding enrollment growth at…
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