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 21 No. 11
  • By the Way . . . Extension of the Higher Education Act
  • By the Way . . . PERS Employer Contribution Rate Confirmed
  • Study Reflects High Utilization of Community Colleges in California
  • Budget Hearings
  • Legislative Analyst’s Office Analyzes May Revision
  • May Revision and Community Colleges
  • Speaker-Emeritus Offers Legislative Reform Plan
  • Karen Bass Sworn In as Assembly Speaker
  • BY the Way . . . Ken Marzion Named Interim Chief Executive Officer of PERS
  • By the Way . . . PERS Holds the Line on Health Care Premiums
  • By the Way . . . Assembly Committee Assignments Made
  • By the Way . . . Denise Ducheny Replaces Jack Scott as Chair of Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education
  • EdFund Sale Is Postponed
  • May Revision and STRS
  • California Lottery Lowers Estimated Payout to Education
  • Ask SSC . . . Is It True that STRS Members Who Retire after 2011 Do Not Get the Longevity Bonus?
Volume 21 No. 10
  • Breaking News on Deficit Funding
  • California Community Colleges Receive Large Gift
  • Results of PPIC Poll on State Education Funding
  • Update on Budget Hearings
  • We Are Not Alone
  • Professional Standards/Reminders—Position Control (Fourth in a Series)
  • Is the Governor Signaling a Collapse of Revenues at May Revision?
  • Judge Appears to Signal Win in Lawsuit Against the State Controller
  • And the 2008-09 Statutory COLA Is . . . 5.66%
  • April Tax Receipts Exceed Forecast
  • California Public Employees’ Retirement System Resignations
  • By the Way . . . Health Care Reform Revisited
  • Senator Jack Scott Named Community College Chancellor
  • By the Way . . . PERS Employer Contribution Rate Announced for 2008-09
Volume 21 No. 9
  • Financial Aid Update
  • Demographic Study
  • Update on Leadership Changes
  • Community College and General Budget Update
  • Professional Standards/Reminders—Enrollment Projections and Average Daily Attendance (Third in a Series)
  • Ask SSC . . . How Should a Basic Aid District Designate Excess Reserves?
  • March Revenues Fall Short—Corporate Profits to Blame
  • Budget Subcommittees Tackle Proposal to Change the COLA
  • SSC-Axiom Mandate Partnership
  • State Jobless Rate Jumps
  • Ask SSC . . . Why Does School Services Rely on the Department of Finance’s Finance Bulletin for Tracking Tax Receipts?
  • Legislative Republicans Propose to Fully Fund Proposition 98
  • Education Funding, Proposition 98, and the May Revision
  • By the Way . . . PERS to Distribute Medicare Retiree Drug Subsidy
  • STRS Actuarial Assumptions
  • STRS Presents Adequacy Study