Fiscal Report

As the cornerstone of School Services of California Inc.'s integrated services, the Fiscal Report provides real-time updates on issues affecting the finances and management of school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education. This essential resource keeps clients informed of the status and potential ramifications of impending state government actions, both legislative and regulatory, as well as state apportionments, court decisions, elections, and other education-impacting events.

Volume 29 No. 3
  • Critical Deadlines and Funding Opportunities - 2/6/09
  • By the Way . . . U.S. Senate Considering Education Funding Reductions to Stimulus Plan
  • Budget Vote Next Week
  • Cash Flow Update
  • Ask SSC . . . Are There Any Reductions for the Charter School Block Grants?
  • Governor’s Budget Workshop Q&A—Part 3
  • Legislative Analyst Identifies $4.5 billion in K-12 Cuts
  • By the Way . . . Superintendent O’Connell Delivers the 2009 State-of-Education Address
  • Ask SSC . . . Do We Get Growth Funding for Special Education?
  • Conversation with Secretary of Education Glen Thomas
  • Ask SSC . . . Do We Need to Provide Summer School to Students from Outside Our District?
  • How to Negotiate “Language” Issues
  • SSC Plans for an Unusual Budget Year
  • Urgent Education Policy Event Scheduled
  • Categorical Flexibility Battle Goes Prime Time
  • The Quest for the Silver Bullet—the Federal Bailout
  • By the Way . . . FCMAT Recommends Strategies to Manage Cash During the State Deferrals
  • By the Way . . . Ruling Favors Schwarzenegger Furlough Plan
  • Serving Layoff Notices on Certificated and Classified Employees
  • By the Way . . . Standard & Poor’s Joins Fitch and Moody’s Investor Services in California Downgrade Party
  • House Passes Stimulus Package, Senate Plan Released
  • By the Way . . . Assembly Committee Membership Announced
  • By the Way . . . Rating Agency Downgrades the State's Economic Recovery Bonds
  • Ask SSC . . . Can We Reduce Days in the 2008-09 Fiscal Year?
  • By the Way . . . RevLim Online for 2009-10 is Now Available
  • State Unemployment Rate Increases
Volume 29 No. 2
  • Governor’s Budget Workshop Q&A—Part 2
  • Are You Appropriately Classifying and Compensating Your Adult Education Teachers?
  • By the Way . . . Glen Thomas Named Education Secretary
  • Controller to Delay Payments Absent a Budget Solution
  • By the Way . . . Updated Global Variables for 2008-09
  • Ask SSC . . . How Do We Calculate Our District’s Revenue Limit?
  • Is the Rise in Teacher Compensation in 2007-08 the Last Hurrah?
  • Governor’s Budget Workshop Q&A—Part 1
  • By the Way . . . SSC's 2009-10 Dartboard Now Available
  • What Happens With a Qualified or Negative Budget?
  • The Importance of Planning for Certificated Layoffs while Flexibility Options and Revenue Limit Cuts Dance in Limbo
  • Congressional Democrats Unveil Stimulus Bill, Include Education
  • Governor Gives Nontraditional State of the State Address
  • By the Way . . . Assembly Committee Chairs Announced
  • Flexibility Editorial From Assembly Member Jean Fuller
  • Senate Committee Assignments Announced
  • Governor's Proposals for the 2009-10 State Budget and K-12 Education
  • Borrowing in Response to the State’s Facilities Funding Freeze<br>Those Who Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
  • Pooled Money Investment Board to Further Discuss Facilities Loans
Volume 29 No. 1
  • By the Way . . . Release of the State Budget Proposal Will Not Be Delayed
  • California School Boards Association's Forecast Conference Webcast Set for January 15, 2009
  • Governor Vetoes Legislature's Midyear Reduction Package
  • Special Session Bils Sent to Governor
  • Lawsuit Filed Against Democrat Revenue Proposal
  • Welcome Back!
  • By the Way . . . Leon Panetta Selected to Head CIA
  • Early Release of Governor’s Proposed 2009-10 State Budget
  • Controller Issues Dire Warning of Cash Crisis
  • By the Way . . . Governor’s Budget Workshop Long Beach A.M. Session Now Full
  • By the Way . . . Special Education Settlement Figures Available
  • Ask SSC . . . Is There a Deficit for 2007-08 CSR?
  • CTA also Takes Aim at the Sales Tax
  • Looking at an Early Retirement Incentive?
  • Governor Convenes Second Proposition 58 Special Session
  • Ask SSC . . . Could the Governor Sign the Bill Reducing Proposition 98 Expenditures, but Veto the One that Raises Revenue?
  • Details of Proposed Reductions to Proposition 98
  • Judge Tentatively Blocks New Algebra Requirement
  • Governor’s Budget Workshop Update