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 25 No. 5
  • Ask SSC . . . When Will School Districts Get Proposition 63 Mental Health Money?
  • Ask SSC . . . Can You Provide Old Versus New Resource Codes for AB 825
  • State Reform Coming to a Ballot Box Near You
  • Governor’s “Year of Reform” Spawns Educational Reform Coalition
  • Merit Schmerit—Senate Committee Holds Bill
  • Charter School Funding Rates at 2004-05 P-1 Apportionment
  • Low Deficits Reported in 2004-05 Special Education Apportionment
  • Some Deficits Higher, Some Lower at Latest Apportionment
  • District Reorganization Changes Equalization Aid Targets and Proration Factor
  • What Is Equal? New Approaches to Equalization Aid
  • Legislative Analyst Recommends Repealing Proposition 49
  • Legislative Analyst Recommends $315 Million for Mandates in 2005-06
  • Legislative Analyst Weighs in on Governor’s Proposed STRS Shift to Schools
  • Legislative Analyst’s Proposition 98 Comments Create an Even More Complicated Political Scene
  • Legislative Analyst Sees Higher State Revenues
Volume 25 No. 4
  • By the Way . . . Governor Appoints Former State Senator Bruce McPherson Secretary of State
  • By the Way . . . California Career Educators Selected to Attend the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems Class of 2005
  • Ask SSC . . . Can Deferred Maintenance Funds Pay for Project Management?
  • Ask SSC . . . Can Salary Contingency Language Work?
  • Ask SSC . . . How Long Has the State Been Paying into STRS?
  • Ask SSC . . . Is the Governor’s Reform Proposal Better for Schools?
  • We Wish Curt the Best in His New Position
  • Is the Governor’s Popularity Fading?
  • Governor Rescinds Nominations of STRS Trustees
  • Lottery Approves New Multistate Game in Hopes of Increasing Revenues and Educational Funding
  • Schools May Benefit from a Student’s Loss of Driving Privileges
  • Attorney General Opines on Tobacco Education and Research Oversight
  • Strong State Revenue Growth for December and January
  • Resource Codes Established for Williams Revenues
  • Williams Implementation Is Proceeding—Are You?
  • Legislative Analyst’s Office Issues Proposition 98 Primer
  • Assembly Subcommittee Discusses Education Finance
  • Education Budget Subcommittees Take Governor’s Proposals on the Road
  • Governor Backtracks from State Budget Proposal
  • AB 825 Block Grant Questions and Answers
Volume 25 No. 3
  • By the Way . . . Mavonne Garrity Appointed Interim Assistant Executive Officer of the State Allocation Board
  • By the Way . . . Bid Limit Raised to $62,400
  • Ask SSC . . . Is the STRS Shift to Proposition 98 Funding to Pay Back a Prior-Year Loan?
  • Ask SSC . . . Is There a Specific Amount for Direct Copy Charges?
  • Ask SSC . . . What Is the Student-to-Certificated Teacher Ratio Calculation for a Necessary Small School?
  • Ask SSC . . . What is the Allocation for Staff Development Buyout?
  • Ask SSC . . . Does AB 825 Give Flexibility to Remove Buy Back Days from Our Salary Schedule?
  • Information Security a Problem for Schools, Too
  • Student Fees Revisited
  • Resource Codes for Categorical Block Grants
  • FCC Rules on E-Rate Costs
  • Governor’s Budget Proposal Would Repeal County Mental Health Mandate
  • The Governor’s Reform Package
  • Superintendent O’Connell Gives “State of Education” Address