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Assembly panel reviews LCFF funding, COLA assumptions and proposed LCAP penalty
Summary
The Assembly budget subcommittee heard presentations from the Department of Finance and the Legislative Analyst's Office on the Local Control Funding Formula, the governor's cost-of-living adjustment proposal and a trailer-bill penalty for districts that fail to adopt Local Control and Accountability Plans by July 1.
Chair Alvarez convened the California State Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance to hear overview briefings and questions on the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the governor's proposed cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and a trailer-bill proposal that would penalize local educational agencies (LEAs) that fail to adopt Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by the July 1 deadline.
The Department of Finance said the LCFF provides the bulk of unrestricted funding for LEAs and is distributed based on student counts with additional allocations for low-income students, English learners and foster youth. "The bulk of unrestricted funding for local educational agencies is provided through the local control funding formula," said Katie Lagomarcino, Department of Finance. Lagomarcino described grade-span adjustments in the formula — a 10.4% increase for grades TK–3 and a 2.6% increase for grades 9–12 — and described enrollment protections such as three-year…
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