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Board adopts resolutions: calls for repeal of SB 858 reserve cap and backs Proposition 47
Summary
The Board of Education voted to request repeal of SB 858 (education code 42127.01) that would limit local reserve flexibility and also voted to support Proposition 47 (Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act), which would reclassify certain low-level offenses and direct savings to schools and treatment programs.
On Oct. 28 the San Francisco Board of Education adopted two policy resolutions addressing statewide policy.
The first resolution asks the California Legislature and governor to repeal section 27 of SB 858 (codified at Education Code 42127.01), language that would force districts to reduce assigned and unassigned fund balances to a statutory ceiling if the state deposits money into the Public School System Stabilization Account. The resolution argued that a mandatory, near-term spend-down could jeopardize local fiscal solvency, particularly while the Local Control Funding Formula is still being phased in.
The second resolution expresses the board's support for Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act, which reclassifies certain low-level nonviolent drug possession and petty theft offenses from felonies to misdemeanors and seeks to direct savings to K'12 schools, mental health and treatment programs and victim services. The resolution cites restorative practices, investments in prevention and the goal of reducing the school-to-prison pipeline as the rationale for board support.
Both resolutions passed by recorded vote; board members discussed the political balance of making public endorsements but noted the proportional civic impact on students and school funding.
