(05-14) 11:04 PDT Sacramento --
Over the next few years, California's public schools will reap billions of extra dollars in revenues as the state slowly emerges from the Great Recession.
From 2011-12 to 2016-17, school funding will jump by $19 billion from $47.3 billion to $66.5 billion, according to Gov. Jerry Brown, who presented his revised spending plan for the next fiscal year on Tuesday.
The big boost is helped by Proposition 30, which voters passed in November, and by Proposition 98, which voters approved in 1988 to force the state to set aside a certain portion of budget dollars for schools.
The governor delivered the news as he unveiled his revised budget, which showed that California will have less tax revenue coming into its coffers in the next fiscal year than was anticipated just four months ago.
The state is projected to collect $97.2 billion in revenue in the year starting July 1 instead of the $98.5 billion Brown had projected in January. Before the recession, California's spending peaked at $103 billion.
California currently spends $8,667 per K-12 public school student, ranking near the bottom nationally in per pupil spending. The extra dollars for K-12 public schools are expected to provide $1,046 more per student in the fiscal year starting July 1. After next fiscal year, funding levels are expected to increase each year for three years by $2,754 per student.
The governor is also proposing to spend an additional $48 million next year in CalWORKS job training and in subsidies to employment programs. He also plans to give an additional $72 million to county probation departments, which have been inundated with work due to the governor's prison realignment program.
Brown surprised many political observers in January when he declared in his original proposal that the deficit had vanished. Many political observers expected him to announce a bump in revenues over January's projections.
The governor has urged lawmakers - some of whom are eager to restore social service programs that were cut in past years - to handle any extra revenue carefully. Lawmakers have a constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass a spending plan for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
They governor's finance experts say "recent federal actions" led to a "downward revision in the short-term economic outlook." Those actions include the federal government not extending a lower payroll deduction.
The general fund is the state's main checking account that pays for most government services, including K-12 public schools and higher education, prisons, health and human services and parks.
Including special fund spending, which is money raised by fees and that goes to specific purposes related to those fees, California would spend $137 billion in the next fiscal year.
Legislative budget committee hearings on the proposals begin later this week.
Over the next few years, California's public schools will reap billions of extra dollars in revenues as the state slowly emerges from the Great Recession.
From 2011-12 to 2016-17, school funding will jump by $19 billion from $47.3 billion to $66.5 billion, according to Gov. Jerry Brown, who presented his revised spending plan for the next fiscal year on Tuesday.
The big boost is helped by Proposition 30, which voters passed in November, and by Proposition 98, which voters approved in 1988 to force the state to set aside a certain portion of budget dollars for schools.
The governor delivered the news as he unveiled his revised budget, which showed that California will have less tax revenue coming into its coffers in the next fiscal year than was anticipated just four months ago.
The state is projected to collect $97.2 billion in revenue in the year starting July 1 instead of the $98.5 billion Brown had projected in January. Before the recession, California's spending peaked at $103 billion.
California currently spends $8,667 per K-12 public school student, ranking near the bottom nationally in per pupil spending. The extra dollars for K-12 public schools are expected to provide $1,046 more per student in the fiscal year starting July 1. After next fiscal year, funding levels are expected to increase each year for three years by $2,754 per student.
The governor is also proposing to spend an additional $48 million next year in CalWORKS job training and in subsidies to employment programs. He also plans to give an additional $72 million to county probation departments, which have been inundated with work due to the governor's prison realignment program.
Brown surprised many political observers in January when he declared in his original proposal that the deficit had vanished. Many political observers expected him to announce a bump in revenues over January's projections.
The governor has urged lawmakers - some of whom are eager to restore social service programs that were cut in past years - to handle any extra revenue carefully. Lawmakers have a constitutional deadline of June 15 to pass a spending plan for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
They governor's finance experts say "recent federal actions" led to a "downward revision in the short-term economic outlook." Those actions include the federal government not extending a lower payroll deduction.
The general fund is the state's main checking account that pays for most government services, including K-12 public schools and higher education, prisons, health and human services and parks.
Including special fund spending, which is money raised by fees and that goes to specific purposes related to those fees, California would spend $137 billion in the next fiscal year.
Legislative budget committee hearings on the proposals begin later this week.