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 17 No. 16
  • By the Way . . . Proposed Independent Study Regulations to Go Before State Board
  • By the Way . . . Long-time Educator, Marion Joseph, Appointed to the State Board of Education
  • ERAF Reversal for Public Libraries
  • Ask SSC . . . Don’t Change Special Education Deficit When Closing Books
  • Ask SSC . . . Adult Education and Facility Costs Clarification
  • State Department Convenes “School’s In” Symposium
  • North Carolina Supreme Court Defines BASIC Education
  • Categorical Reform Bills to Take Spotlight
  • K-12 Deficit Now 8.741% -- Three Rounds of K-12 Equalization Aid Now Funded
  • K-12 Budget Items Approved
Volume 17 No. 15
  • Ask SSC . . . Taxability of Early Retirement Incentives
  • Ask SSC . . . Can’t Problems With Actual Attendance Bill Be Easily Corrected?
  • Ask SSC . . . 1996-97 K-12 Deficit Now Expected To Be Above 8.7%
  • School Accountability Report Cards Enter the Mandate Arena
  • State Controller’s Annual Report Cites Improving School Agency Fiscal Solvency
  • 1996-97 Deferred Maintenance Accrual
  • Little Hoover Commission Report Calls for Local Revenue Option, Knocks “95/5”
  • Application Window Opens July 27 for Proposition 203 Joint Use Dollars
  • Budgetless in Sacramento
  • Governor’s Tax Cut Would Reduce K-12 Funding by $120 per ADA
  • Governor Proposes Surprise Income Tax Cut -- Major State Budget Glitch
Volume 17 No. 14
  • Ask SSC . . . Year-Round Purchasing – Still A Good Idea
  • Ask SSC . . . Questions Regarding Joint Legislative Audit Committee Inquiry
  • Ask SSC . . . Adult Education and Facility Costs
  • Speedy School Safety Legislation
  • Lottery Yields Better than $105 per Student in 1996-97
  • GASB Requires Fair Market Value Reporting of Investments Effective 1997-98
  • Senate Education Committee Amendment Endangers Adoption of Special Education Funding Reform Bill
  • P-2 Briefing Again Shows Benefit of Continuing Appropriation
  • Bill to End Excused Absences Moving Fast
  • Final Class-Size Reduction Tally: Nearly 1 Million Students In Smaller Classes
  • 1996-97 Tax Revenues Revised Downward -- Another $77 Million Less for Equalization Aid/Deficit Reduction
  • P-2 ADA Below Budget Estimates; $69 Million Less for Equalization Aid/Deficit Reduction
  • Student Testing - Potentially A Budget Deal Breaker
  • Budget Update - 7-11-97