Community College Update

A vital resource for community college clients, School Services of California Inc.'s Community College Update delivers timely and useful information on fiscal and policy issues. The Community College Update features in-depth articles on topics such as the State Budget, Proposition 98 allocations, capital outlay, Lottery estimates, bonds, student fee questions, and much more. The Community College Update contains summaries and analyses of all major legislation that has an impact on community colleges.

Volume 23 No. 13
  • Health Committee Approves Single Payer Health Care Coverage Bill
  • Transfer Bills' Progress
  • Federal Report on For-Profit Education
  • Consequences of Failure to Enact State Budget
  • By the Way . . . Requiring Use of Electronic Book Readers May Constitute Discrimination
  • Initiative to Lower the Threshold for Passage of Educational Parcel Taxes Fails to Qualify for Ballot
  • GASB Issues New Standard for Financial Instruments
  • Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Applications Now Being Accepted
  • Bill Would Put K-University Facilities Bond on November 2010 Ballot
  • Assembly Democrats Modify Borrowing Scheme
  • Senate Democrats Propose to Shift Social Service and Public Safety Programs to Counties
Volume 23 No. 12
  • Implementing Health Care Reform: Temporary Reinsurance for Early Retirees
  • Conference Committee Takes Up Community College Budget
  • PERS Approves 2011 HMO and PPO Health Plan Rates
  • Update on State Revenue—Video
  • The Latest on Revenues and the Economy
  • By the Way . . . PERS Board Adopts 2010-11 Employer Contribution Rates
  • PERS Committee Again Recommends Increased Employer Contribution Rates
  • Ask SSC . . . How Will SB 919 Impact Classified Employees Subject to Layoff?
  • First Successful Community College Parcel Tax
  • School Bonds Do Well in a Tough Economy
  • May Revision Questions and Answers
Volume 23 No. 11
  • Ask SSC . . . How Do PERS and STRS Affect the Current State Budget Crisis?
  • STRS Board Delays Decision on Reducing Investment Return Assumption
  • Budget Conference Committee Begins Work
  • STRS Poised to Reduce Investment Return Actuarial Assumption
  • Bill to Change Community College Funding Formula Passes Senate
  • Ask SSC . . . What Is Meant by a “Class of Employees” for Furlough Days?
  • Implementing Health Care Reform: Information Reporting Requirements
  • Ask SSC . . . How Do PERS and STRS Affect the Current State Crisis?
  • Congress Cuts Federal Aid, Leaving the May Revision Short $1.9 Billion
  • Ask SSC . . . What Does the Reporting of Health Care Premiums on Form W-2 Mean?
  • Budget Subcommittee Approves Controversial Budget Bill Language
  • PERS’ School Pool Contribution Rate Approval Delayed
  • Assembly Democrats Release “The California Jobs Budget”
  • Implementing Health Care Reform—Dependent Coverage
  • By the Way . . . Funded Negative COLA to Differ for CCC and K-12