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Assembly committee advances bill letting community colleges exclude local backfill of federal cuts from the 50% law
Summary
The Assembly Higher Education Committee advanced AB 2121, which would temporarily allow community colleges to exclude locally backfilled funds that replace federal TRIO and MSI grants from the 50% law calculation for up to five years, while adding transparency and certification safeguards.
Assemblymember Mark Berman told the Assembly Higher Education Committee that AB 2121 would let community colleges temporarily exclude locally reallocated dollars used to replace cut federal TRIO and minority-serving institution (MSI) grants from the state's 50% law calculation.
'AB 2121 responds to 'what the author described as a 'series of federal funding rollbacks' that, he said, left essential student-support programs at risk and forced districts to redirect local funds that would otherwise count toward the 50% floor for instructional…
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