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Assistant superintendent outlines state funding basics, enrollment decline and post-pandemic budget pressures
Summary
In a community presentation, Paula Rainier explained LCFF and community-funded districts, AB 1200 oversight, the end of pandemic one-time funds and a roughly 10% statewide enrollment decline that complicates district budgeting.
Paula Rainier, the district’s assistant superintendent for business services, operations and technology, gave a detailed overview of how California school funding works and the forces straining local budgets since the pandemic.
Rainier explained that since 2013 California shifted to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which provides a uniform per-student base statewide plus supplemental grants tied to student subgroups, and requires a Local Control Accountability Plan to tie spending to goals. She contrasted LCFF with community-funded (basic aid)…
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