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 16 No. 6
  • By the Way . . . Governor Appoints Faculty Member to the Board of Governors
  • CalPERS Board Adopts Regulations to Give Local Agencies More Time to Terminate Health Benefit Contracts
  • Community College Students March on State Capitol—Will it Matter?
  • Golden Handshake Legislation Introduced
  • Another Approach to Student Enrollment Fees—“Differential Fee” Is Back
  • Coalition Formed to Seek the Repeal of SB 1419 (Service Contracts)
  • Mid-Year Budget Cuts Enacted at Last
  • Ask SSC . . . Do the Mandate Deferrals in SBX1 18 Apply to 2002-03 Claims?
  • Ask SSC . . . How Do We Justify Layoffs of Certificated Employees and Plan for Next Year?
  • California Supreme Court Decision Could Subject Local Educational Agencies to Greater Liability for Open Disability Claims
Volume 16 No. 5
  • By the Way . . . Recent Poll Indicates Public’s Dissatisfaction Over How the Budget Crisis is Being Handled
  • Ask SSC . . . Can We Use Categorical Funds To Pay a Retirement Incentive?
  • Master Plan for Education 2003 and 2004
  • Additional Legislation Introduced as Deadline Passes
  • Impact of Student Fees on California Community Colleges
  • Bipartisan Group of Legislators in the Assembly Attempt to Find a Solution to the State Budget Crisis
  • Assembly Budget Committee Agrees to Reduce Mid-Year Cuts By $38 Million
  • P-1 Apportionment: More Deficits for This Year and Last
  • By the Way . . . Fiscal Squeeze Does Not Delay the Legislature
  • Ask SSC . . . Could Board Members Use E-Mail under the Brown Act?
  • Where Is the Mandate Money?
  • Ask SSC . . . When Will the May Revise Be Out?
  • Another Week Goes By Without Resolution on Mid-year Budget Cuts
  • What Are You Thinking?
Volume 16 No. 4
  • By the Way . . . Capital Outlay Submittals Due July 1, 2003
  • Employee/Employer Legislation
  • Alternatives to Governor Davis’ Budget Deficit Solutions Are Being Proposed
  • Ask SSC . . . Is There a “Drop Dead” Date for Mid-Year Cuts?
  • Ask SSC . . . Do You Believe that Districts Should Go Straight to Factfinding?
  • Classified and Certificated Layoff—Statutory Provisions
  • Legislative Analyst Releases “No Silver Bullet” Budget Analysis
  • All’s Quiet on the Sacramento Front