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Roseville City School District Recategorizing $9.7 Million per Prop 30 Requirement

The item was discussed at Thursday's school board meeting.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly described money the Roseville City School District would get from Proposition 30. The district was in fact only recategorizing funds it already had to meet a requirement of that proposition, and was not getting any new funding. Patch regrets the error.

A statement from the district follows:

Proposition 30 did not provide school districts with any additional funding. Rather it forestalled significant trigger cuts to current funding levels that were required by the California state budget had Proposition 30 failed to pass.

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One requirement of Proposition 30 was that the district has to identify expenditures equivalent to twenty percent of its revenue limit ($9.7 million) and re-categorize those expenditures under a different account called the “Education Protection Account.” None of the re-categorized expenditures can be related to administrative expenses.

There is no additional money coming to Roseville City School District as a result of Proposition 30. It simply avoided further cuts. This district, as all districts in California, is receiving roughly ten percent less per student this year in actual dollars than was received five years ago. It is hoped that next year’s state budget will finally begin the process of restoring the cuts that began in 2007.

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The Roseville City School District this week recategorized $9.7 million of currently existing money to meet a Proposition 30 requirement.

The school board held a public hearing at its meeting Thursday night to discuss the item.

The district placed the money–20 percent of its revenue limit–in an "Education Protection Account," as required by the proposition passed last year. The money it identified, according to a staff report, was $1.8 million from Catherine Gates Elementary, including $1.5 million in money for teachers. Also included was $3 million from Cooley Intermediate School, including $2.5 million in teacher funding. The district also named $1.5 million from Brown Elementary, including about $1.3 million for teachers. And $3.3 million from Buljan Middle School was placed in the account, including $2.7 million for teachers.

The district is prohibited from spending that money on administrative costs.

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Roseville City School Board meeting
6 p.m. Thursday
1050 Main St.

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