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It’s not complicated,” Newsom told Van Buren County Democrats, turning their attention to the prospects of another Trump presidency. “What I need to convince you of is not to be fatalistic, not to fall prey to all of this negativity. … Do more. Worry less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s plea highlights the tenuous balance for Democrats and party lieutenants like the 56-year-old governor: He has long been a top Biden campaign surrogate and was among the governors who rallied behind the president after a private White House session on Wednesday. Yet Newsom himself is among those mentioned as potential replacements should \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-replacement-democratic-ballot-dnc-rules-7aa836b0ae642a68eec86cc0bebd3772\">Biden step aside and allow an open convention\u003c/a> when Democratic delegates convene in Chicago next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor sidestepped questions about those potential outcomes, including whether he would support Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>, a fellow Californian, for the nomination if Biden leaves the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t even like playing in the hypotheticals because last night was about sort of locking down any doubt or ambiguity,” he said, referring to Biden’s session with Democratic governors. “And then we start running in different directions, zigging and zagging and all that kind of speculation. And that gets in the way of progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom acknowledged “a tough few weeks” during his remarks to picnic attendees, and he admitted he had to scrap his planned talking points when facing reporters in Atlanta after the debate. But he said Biden reassured him and other Democratic governors on Wednesday at the White House, where the president acknowledged his flop but expressed determination to win his rematch with \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the Joe Biden I remember from two weeks ago. That was the Joe Biden that I remember from two years ago,” Newsom said. “That’s the Joe Biden that I’m looking forward to reelecting as president of the United States, and I mean that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2159950718-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2159950718-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2159950718-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2159950718-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/GettyImages-2159950718.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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He told reporters afterward that Biden referenced late nights “with a smile on his face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more of a rhetorical framework of just being fit and rested because he was \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-debate-explanation-excuse-cold-jet-lag-858cd34ca0fb6b76cf9e30b57f884548\">burning it at both ends\u003c/a> that last ten or so days (before the debate), and I think that was what he was reflecting,” Newsom said. “It wasn’t a literal ‘at 8 o’clock I will be doing things differently,’ it was more figurative.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said it’s okay when a “president acknowledges they’re human” and added that people are “reading between the lines too much” on what Biden said about his schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom drew enthusiastic applause from the partisan crowd. One attendee, Susan Kavanaugh, called his outlook “timely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11992512,forum_2010101906188,news_11991846\"]“I just was so encouraged by his optimism and speaking genuinely from his heart,” she said. “Which reminds me a lot of the character of Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the governor’s confidence, leading Democrats remain concerned about whether Biden can rebound politically. The president’s aides and allies agree that the coming days are critical, with Biden planning a visible, busy schedule that could stem any free fall in public confidence — or further solidify voter concerns that he is too old for another term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden is scheduled to campaign on Friday in Wisconsin, a key battleground he won in 2020, and sit for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. It will air as a prime-time special that night. He plans to be in Philadelphia on Sunday and hold a full news conference during the NATO summit in Washington next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already this week, the president used a radio interview to emphasize voters’ choice and argue that Trump would be a disaster for American democracy and the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom echoed that framing in Michigan, urging the party faithful to embrace Biden’s record and values. He noted sustained low unemployment, rising wages and major legislation for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-congress-infrastructure-bill-signing-b5b8cca843133de060778f049861b144\">infrastructure spending\u003c/a>, addressing climate change and spurring American manufacturing, especially \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-technology-china-government-and-politics-1f8c7901c14c1894856c98968f2b837a\">computer chips\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in this man. I believe in his character. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But those revenue spikes did not last as inflation slowed the economy, contributing to rising unemployment and a slowdown in the tech industry that has driven much of the state’s growth. The Newsom administration then badly miscalculated how much money California would have last year after a seven-month delay in the tax filing deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has historically been prone to large budget swings, given its \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-california-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-2522f2b710bbb32383ab33865a1a9333\">reliance on its wealthiest taxpayers\u003c/a>. But these deficits have come at a bad time for Newsom, who has been building his national profile ahead of a potential future run for president and has been tapped as a top surrogate for President Joe Biden’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget includes an agreement that Newsom and lawmakers will try to change the state constitution to let California put more money in reserve for future shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans, however, said they were left out of negotiations. They criticized the tax increase on businesses, which applies to companies with at least $1 million in revenue and will last for three years, bringing in more than $5 billion extra for the state next year. And they criticized Democrats for some cuts to social safety net programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But he used some of Trump’s most incendiary statements to offer a dark contrast of the choice facing Americans in November, comparing it to the eve of World War II when “fascism spread its hate and destruction throughout Europe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they speak of immigrants poisoning American blood and of mass deportations and detention camps, this is the language of destruction — of 1939,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made those comments about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” during a campaign rally in Iowa last year, later \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-hitler-poison-blood-history-f8c3ff512edd120252596a4743324352\">saying he did not know\u003c/a> that Adolf Hitler had once said something similar. 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He said property crime in San Francisco has fallen, as has the overall crime rate across the bay in Oakland — where Newsom recently deployed 120 California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s because, in California, we take public safety seriously — a problem to solve, not just to flog on cable news,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On homelessness, Newsom pointed to the more active role the state has taken under his administration, including spending billions of dollars to create programs that provided 15,300 units of housing and provided shelter for more than 71,000 people. However, a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homeless-audit-spending-8c8c8ce6cd9fc6840e180a99fccff588\">state audit\u003c/a> released earlier this year chided his administration for not tracking how effective the state’s homelessness spending — more than $24 billion over five years — has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom defended his decision to sign a law \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homeless-audit-spending-8c8c8ce6cd9fc6840e180a99fccff588\">raising the minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast food workers to $20 an hour, a raise businesses have blamed for increasing customer costs. He also boasted about California’s economy, which, were it an independent country, would rank as the fifth largest in the world—saying California has added 63,000 new millionaires since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here is a simple question for Republicans: If California is a failed state, why are four of the seven most valuable companies in the world based here?” he said, referring to Apple, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-chip-ai-apple-microsoft-51cc2b56e5871111907de6ad9cab59ae\">Nvidia\u003c/a>, and the parent companies of Google and Facebook. “The best minds in the world call California home because they’re liberated from the constraints of conformity and tradition. This is true freedom — to invent and make the world a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101906125,news_11983845,news_11989427\"]Newsom chose to deliver a speech for the smartphone era, opting to upload a prerecorded video across his social media channels instead of giving a formal speech before a packed house of state lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic governor, now in his second term, has never been a big fan of formal speeches, given the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-health-business-gavin-newsom-childrens-books-9756e47fc0a193a7fed729753be41ca6\">difficulty his dyslexia\u003c/a> gives him while reading from a teleprompter in live time. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom, state lawmakers, and health industry leaders have a small window to reach an agreement on billions of new dollars for Medi-Cal before it’s put to voters in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/23-0024A1%20%28Medi-Cal%20Funding%29_0.pdf\">An initiative (PDF)\u003c/a>, supported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.accesstohealthcareca.com/ourcoalition\">virtually every sector\u003c/a> of the state’s health care industry as well as the local Republican and Democratic parties, would lock in the money for Medi-Cal, California’s version of the Medicaid health insurance program for residents with low income. The funds would be used primarily to increase payment rates for health care professionals who serve Medi-Cal patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/health-industry-groups-new-medicaid-money/\">initially supported\u003c/a> using the money for that purpose. However, after California’s fiscal situation darkened, he reversed course in May, proposing to divert most of it to reduce the state’s $45 billion budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money comes from a two-decade-old tax on managed-care health plans, which has historically been used to offset existing state spending rather than support new investments in Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The importance of this ballot initiative is finally being serious about investing in the viability of the Medi-Cal system,” said Adam Dougherty, chief of emergency medicine at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. “The MCO tax literally touches every aspect of the Medi-Cal system, and it can’t be at the mercy of year-to-year budget crises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Genest, a former finance director under Republican Gov. 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Elana Ross, a spokesperson for Newsom, declined to comment on the status of the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Newsom proposed using about $6.7 billion previously earmarked for Medi-Cal pay hikes and some other health care priorities, mostly in 2025 and 2026, to offset existing state spending. His proposal would retain Medi-Cal payment increases totaling around $300 million a year for some primary care, mental health, and maternity services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed a new budget on June 13, largely following the governor’s wishes by canceling the planned Medi-Cal increases in 2025. But Newsom hasn’t signed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was approved represents a two-house agreement between the Senate and the Assembly — not an agreement with the governor,” said H.D. 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Using the tax revenue to pay Medi-Cal providers more is “a generational opportunity to fundamentally fix access to care for Medi-Cal recipients,” said Dustin Corcoran, CEO of the California Medical Association and a spokesperson for the ballot initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corcoran said internal polling shows the initiative has public support by “very healthy margins,” though he declined to share specific numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the initiative does end up on the November ballot and is approved, it would override any compromise Newsom strikes with lawmakers. It would restore the previously planned Medi-Cal investments for 2025 and 2026. And it would make the increased funding, and more of it, permanent starting in 2027, though that would require federal approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11990005,news_11986075,news_11986871\"]Proponents of the initiative say it is fundamentally a question of health equity. Medi-Cal covers medical and mental health services for nearly 15 million Californians, well over a third of the state, many of them among the poorest and most vulnerable residents. The program has a budget of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838\">about $157 billion\u003c/a>, including recent expansions to cover all immigrants regardless of legal status and a \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/newsom-medicaid-12-billion-dollar-makeover-nonprofits-bureacracy-calaim/\">$12 billion\u003c/a> experiment to offer socioeconomic supports not traditionally covered by health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, access to care is notoriously spotty for many Medi-Cal patients, in part because low payment rates discourage providers from seeing them. The shortage is particularly acute in \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/medicaid-specialist-shortage-wait-pain-riverside-county/\">specialty care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our patients wait months for access to specialists or travel great distances to see them,” said Joel Ramirez, chief medical officer of Camarena Health, a chain of over 20 community clinics based in Madera. “Higher rates would allow for more providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez said 60% to 70% of Camarena’s patients are on Medi-Cal, many of them farmworkers. “It’s a tall ask for them to find time off work and get the transportation to travel an hour for an appointment,” he said. “Whatever condition that patient has that needs the attention of a specialist is being either untreated or incompletely treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty, Sutter Medical Center’s ER chief, said that over half of his patients are on Medi-Cal and the ER is always at full capacity, with the waiting rooms jammed and an insufficient number of beds. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money comes from a two-decade-old tax on managed-care health plans, which has historically been used to offset existing state spending rather than support new investments in Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The importance of this ballot initiative is finally being serious about investing in the viability of the Medi-Cal system,” said Adam Dougherty, chief of emergency medicine at Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento. “The MCO tax literally touches every aspect of the Medi-Cal system, and it can’t be at the mercy of year-to-year budget crises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Genest, a former finance director under Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, noted that several ballot initiatives approved by voters in the past continue to narrow the state’s fiscal choices, including one that limits property tax increases and another that guarantees a large share of the state budget to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do ballot-box budgeting in the state of California. We’ve done it forever. And everything we’ve done in that regard has turned out to be very hard on fiscal stability,” Genest said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.accesstohealthcareca.com/\">Coalition to Protect Access to Care\u003c/a>, made up of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and other medical providers, could settle their differences with state leaders before a June 27 deadline to withdraw the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s desire to claw back most of the promised money puts him at odds with proponents of the initiative, many of whom have long counted themselves among his allies. Elana Ross, a spokesperson for Newsom, declined to comment on the status of the initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, Newsom proposed using about $6.7 billion previously earmarked for Medi-Cal pay hikes and some other health care priorities, mostly in 2025 and 2026, to offset existing state spending. His proposal would retain Medi-Cal payment increases totaling around $300 million a year for some primary care, mental health, and maternity services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed a new budget on June 13, largely following the governor’s wishes by canceling the planned Medi-Cal increases in 2025. But Newsom hasn’t signed off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was approved represents a two-house agreement between the Senate and the Assembly — not an agreement with the governor,” said H.D. Palmer, spokesperson for the state’s Department of Finance. “We’ll respectfully decline to speculate on what the contours of a final agreement would look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from the managed-care tax allows the state to draw matching federal dollars, more than doubling the amount available. Federal and state money would also be used to reimburse the health plans for nearly all the taxes they paid, theoretically having no effect on insurance premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among 19 states that have such an “MCO tax” in place to help fund their Medicaid programs. Using the tax revenue to pay Medi-Cal providers more is “a generational opportunity to fundamentally fix access to care for Medi-Cal recipients,” said Dustin Corcoran, CEO of the California Medical Association and a spokesperson for the ballot initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corcoran said internal polling shows the initiative has public support by “very healthy margins,” though he declined to share specific numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the initiative does end up on the November ballot and is approved, it would override any compromise Newsom strikes with lawmakers. It would restore the previously planned Medi-Cal investments for 2025 and 2026. And it would make the increased funding, and more of it, permanent starting in 2027, though that would require federal approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Proponents of the initiative say it is fundamentally a question of health equity. Medi-Cal covers medical and mental health services for nearly 15 million Californians, well over a third of the state, many of them among the poorest and most vulnerable residents. The program has a budget of \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4838\">about $157 billion\u003c/a>, including recent expansions to cover all immigrants regardless of legal status and a \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/newsom-medicaid-12-billion-dollar-makeover-nonprofits-bureacracy-calaim/\">$12 billion\u003c/a> experiment to offer socioeconomic supports not traditionally covered by health insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, access to care is notoriously spotty for many Medi-Cal patients, in part because low payment rates discourage providers from seeing them. The shortage is particularly acute in \u003ca href=\"https://californiahealthline.org/news/article/medicaid-specialist-shortage-wait-pain-riverside-county/\">specialty care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our patients wait months for access to specialists or travel great distances to see them,” said Joel Ramirez, chief medical officer of Camarena Health, a chain of over 20 community clinics based in Madera. “Higher rates would allow for more providers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramirez said 60% to 70% of Camarena’s patients are on Medi-Cal, many of them farmworkers. “It’s a tall ask for them to find time off work and get the transportation to travel an hour for an appointment,” he said. “Whatever condition that patient has that needs the attention of a specialist is being either untreated or incompletely treated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dougherty, Sutter Medical Center’s ER chief, said that over half of his patients are on Medi-Cal and the ER is always at full capacity, with the waiting rooms jammed and an insufficient number of beds. The initiative, he said, “allows us to hire more staff, add more beds, create more infrastructure for the volume we’re seeing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cem>KFF Health News\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, which publishes \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiahealthline.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cem>California Healthline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, an editorially independent service of the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cem>California Health Care Foundation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Within the next week and change, Democrats who control the Legislature and fellow Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom will need to reconcile their competing budget plans for higher education in California, with huge implications for student financial aid and the short-term fiscal health of the state’s public universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At issue is the 2024–25 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/budget/\">state budget, which \u003c/a>begins July 1 and the multibillion-dollar projected deficits California faces. Lawmakers and the governor are in the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deficit-legislature-newsom/\">final, secretive sprint\u003c/a> of the annual process to craft the state government’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature fulfilled its constitutional duty last Thursday by passing its budget plan. That started the clock for Newsom and lawmakers to reach a compromise for the final 2024–25 budget by late June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on higher education, they’re far apart in key ways — differences that first emerged in January, when budget season publicly kicked off with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">Newsom’s first proposal\u003c/a> for 2024–25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As depressed as I was in January, and as bad as some of the cuts still are that are included in this budget, in education, I think we’ve been able to step ahead with this budget,” said John Laird, a senator and Democrat from Santa Cruz who is chair of the budget subcommittee on education, \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media-archive\">at a hearing on the Legislature’s budget last week\u003c/a>.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much for Middle Class Scholarship?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s last public spending proposal, released in May, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-financial-aid-2/\">would permanently gut\u003c/a> the Middle Class Scholarship \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/5-30-24-higher-education-all-depts-vote-only_final.pdf#page=14\">to just $100 million\u003c/a> annually — a serious blow to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/05/student-loans-uc/\">California’s dreams\u003c/a> of supersizing college financial aid so that no university student \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/07/middle-class-scholarship-california/\">would need to take out student loans\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature countered last week with a stark “nope,” instead keeping a past year’s promise to grow the program \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/5-30-24-higher-education-all-depts-vote-only_final.pdf#page=14\">to $926 million\u003c/a> in 2024–25 and the following year. [aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"california-colleges\"]The dueling proposals would either slash how much each of the roughly 300,000 student recipients who attend the University of California and California State University would receive — or make debt-free college a closer reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the governor’s plan, average awards would drop from between $2,500 and $2,800 to just over $300. If the Legislature gets its way, average awards will range from $3,100 for UC students to $3,600 for Cal State students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts would likely mean more college loans for students, an official with the governor’s Department of Finance \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257970?t=695&f=692440977eb96a15915fad48826affc2\">said at a hearing last month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s plan “significantly brings back the Middle Class Scholarship, right at the time that parents and students are making decisions about what colleges to go to and whether they have the financial resources to go to certain public higher education institutions in California” Laird \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media-archive?time%5Bmedia-element-17617%5D=1037.435289\">said at the budget hearing last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will Cal Grants help more students?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also seeks to partially expand the Cal Grant, the state’s marquee financial aid program, for the 2025–26 budget year. If the plan is approved, another 21,000 students will receive the grant for the first time. About 400,000 students \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20under%20current%20rules%2C%20the%20income%20ceiling%20for%20a%20family%20of%20four%20with%20a%20dependent%20student%20going%20to%20college%20is%20%24131%2C000.%20It%20would%20drop%20to%20%2476%2C000%20under%20the%20Cal%20Grant%20overhaul%2C\">receive it currently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom in May \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">formally rejected any expansion\u003c/a> of the Cal Grant, citing California’s colossal fiscal hole. But legislative budget leaders have been adamant about rolling out the Cal Grant to more students despite the state’s difficult finances to make good on years of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/cal-grant-expansion-veto/\">aggressive advocacy from lawmakers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost would be $47 million in one-time funding to ensure current students receiving the Cal Grant under the current rules would remain in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the plan becomes law, about 11,000 more community college students will get the grant in 2025–26, which would appear as a cash award of about $1,650 and then cover tuition at UC or Cal State if the student transfers. Cal Grants are valid for four years of full-time enrollment. The number of new recipients would grow with each subsequent year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a lower number of new recipients, and smaller price tag, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/\">than what’s in the original Cal Grant expansion plan\u003c/a>. That’s because the partial roll-out would keep the current 2.0 GPA requirement for community college student eligibility, while the original would have removed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus on April 23, 2012, in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, under this new proposal, students would be able to re-establish eligibility by taking fewer classes \u003ca href=\"https://sac.edu/StudentServices/FinancialAid/Pages/CAL-Grant.aspx#:~:text=or%20can%20re%2Destablish%20their%20GPA%20by%20completing%20at%20least%2016%20units%20of%20credit%20at%20CCC%20with%20at%20least%20a%202.0%20GPA%2C%20as%20defined%20by%20CSAC%20regulations.\">through a special program\u003c/a> — 12 units instead of the current 16 — and earning a 2.0 GPA. The number of units a student would need to rehabilitate their GPA would drop to nine units in 2026–27 and six units in 2027–28. The plan calls for no GPA requirement by 2028–29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These details were confirmed by the office of Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/david-alvarez-112993\">David Alvarez\u003c/a>, a Chula Vista Democrat who is chairperson of the Assembly’s budget subcommittee on education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles cm-inline-recirc-hppb wpnbha show-image image-alignleft ts-3 is-1 is-landscape cm-inline-recirc-hppb has-text-align-left\">\n\u003cdiv data-posts=\"\" data-current-post-id=\"428737\">\n\u003cp>The rule changes would mean 9,000 new recipients at Cal State in 2025–26, according to information the state’s financial aid agency, the California Student Aid Commission, shared with CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, about 7,300 new students would get extra cash awards for those with dependent children. Current recipients get $6,000, but new recipients would receive $3,000 in the first year. The award for new recipients would grow by $1,000 each year until hitting $6,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, UC would see about 1,300 fewer students receiving the Cal Grant in 2025–26 than current projections show, the result of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20under%20current%20rules%2C%20the%20income%20ceiling%20for%20a%20family%20of%20four%20with%20a%20dependent%20student%20going%20to%20college%20is%20%24131%2C000.%20It%20would%20drop%20to%20%2476%2C000%20under%20the%20Cal%20Grant%20overhaul%2C\">lowering the income ceiling for who is eligible\u003c/a>. UC’s share of low-income students has declined in the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/#:~:text=Assemblymember%20David%20Alvarez%2C%20a%20Democrat%20from%20Chula%20Vista%2C%20noted%20at%20a%20March%20hearing%20that%20the%20UC%20is\">a source of worry for some lawmakers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates pushing for Cal Grant expansion, including student associations from UC, Cal State and community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CGR-Coalition-Ltr_Leg-Leadership_Support-Leg-Proposal_6.5.24-2-1.pdf\">wrote to lawmakers\u003c/a> that they are pleased with the proposal. “We respect that the cost may be too great during this budget cycle, so we agree that a phase-in as you have proposed is the right step,” the letter read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, these details would appear in a separate “trailer bill” sometime in late June or early July.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the bottom line for UC, CSU?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s plan imposes cuts and delays funding for UC and CSU in 2024–25 and then restores funding in 2025–26 — but by much less than what lawmakers and the governor promised last year.[aside label=\"Higher Education Stories\" tag=\"higher-education\"]Newsom’s funding plan has numerous moving parts, but would basically see Cal State receive $75 million less in 2024–25, then bounce up by $171 million the next year, and leap by another $265 million by 2026–27. That would increase Cal State’s main state support to $5.35 billion. However, Cal State faces numerous budget challenges, including a deficit as\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/cal-state-budget/\"> high as $831 million in the next two years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislative plan would switch the order of fiscal hurt by proposing to grow the UC and CSU budgets in 2024–25 and apply cuts — if the budget deficit still calls for it — in 2025–26. The logic is that another year of additional state aid, even if it’s less than what the systems were promised last year, provides them a year to prepare for the budgetary scythe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less funding \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/may-22-sub-3-agenda-and-memo.pdf#page=12\">for the UC\u003c/a> and Cal State would mean larger class sizes and more unfilled faculty and staff positions. That would limit student services and, for Cal State, likely result in more academic programs getting the ax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both plans, though, the UC and Cal State systems would see more funding by the third year. For Cal State, that’s a jump from $4.99 billion in 2023–24 to $5.35 billion in 2026–27. And for UC, that’d mean state support growing from $4.74 billion now to $5.18 billion in 2026–27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both plans want to continue the recent trend of paying the systems to enroll more California residents — a note of sweet relief for students in the state eager to enter some of the most selective public universities in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laird said that “inflation, deferred maintenance, salary contracts, it is a challenge, but this really is an excellent step forward in a tough budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The dueling proposals would either slash how much each of the roughly 300,000 student recipients who attend the University of California and California State University would receive — or make debt-free college a closer reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the governor’s plan, average awards would drop from between $2,500 and $2,800 to just over $300. If the Legislature gets its way, average awards will range from $3,100 for UC students to $3,600 for Cal State students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts would likely mean more college loans for students, an official with the governor’s Department of Finance \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/257970?t=695&f=692440977eb96a15915fad48826affc2\">said at a hearing last month.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s plan “significantly brings back the Middle Class Scholarship, right at the time that parents and students are making decisions about what colleges to go to and whether they have the financial resources to go to certain public higher education institutions in California” Laird \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/media-archive?time%5Bmedia-element-17617%5D=1037.435289\">said at the budget hearing last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will Cal Grants help more students?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Legislature also seeks to partially expand the Cal Grant, the state’s marquee financial aid program, for the 2025–26 budget year. If the plan is approved, another 21,000 students will receive the grant for the first time. About 400,000 students \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/#:~:text=For%20example%2C%20under%20current%20rules%2C%20the%20income%20ceiling%20for%20a%20family%20of%20four%20with%20a%20dependent%20student%20going%20to%20college%20is%20%24131%2C000.%20It%20would%20drop%20to%20%2476%2C000%20under%20the%20Cal%20Grant%20overhaul%2C\">receive it currently\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom in May \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">formally rejected any expansion\u003c/a> of the Cal Grant, citing California’s colossal fiscal hole. But legislative budget leaders have been adamant about rolling out the Cal Grant to more students despite the state’s difficult finances to make good on years of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/10/cal-grant-expansion-veto/\">aggressive advocacy from lawmakers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost would be $47 million in one-time funding to ensure current students receiving the Cal Grant under the current rules would remain in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the plan becomes law, about 11,000 more community college students will get the grant in 2025–26, which would appear as a cash award of about $1,650 and then cover tuition at UC or Cal State if the student transfers. Cal Grants are valid for four years of full-time enrollment. The number of new recipients would grow with each subsequent year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a lower number of new recipients, and smaller price tag, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/04/cal-grant-3/\">than what’s in the original Cal Grant expansion plan\u003c/a>. That’s because the partial roll-out would keep the current 2.0 GPA requirement for community college student eligibility, while the original would have removed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990718\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/ucberkeley20140213-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC Berkeley students walk through Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus on April 23, 2012, in Berkeley, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, under this new proposal, students would be able to re-establish eligibility by taking fewer classes \u003ca href=\"https://sac.edu/StudentServices/FinancialAid/Pages/CAL-Grant.aspx#:~:text=or%20can%20re%2Destablish%20their%20GPA%20by%20completing%20at%20least%2016%20units%20of%20credit%20at%20CCC%20with%20at%20least%20a%202.0%20GPA%2C%20as%20defined%20by%20CSAC%20regulations.\">through a special program\u003c/a> — 12 units instead of the current 16 — and earning a 2.0 GPA. 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"content": "\u003cp>After legislative leaders failed to reach an agreement with Gov. Gavin Newsom about how to close California’s projected multibillion-dollar deficit, the Legislature passed a placeholder state budget on Thursday, just ahead of a mandatory deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only a few weeks left until the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, both sides refuse to publicly discuss what specific issues are holding up a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office and his Department of Finance declined to answer questions about the remaining differences with the Legislature that still need to be worked out. Representatives for Senate President Pro Tem \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/mike-mcguire-93\">Mike McGuire\u003c/a> and Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a>, who are in charge of negotiating with the governor, would not make them available to the media on Thursday after their members approved a spending plan that almost certainly will not be the actual budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a shared set of priorities,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/jesse-gabriel-160858\">Jesse Gabriel\u003c/a>, an Encino Democrat who leads the Assembly budget committee, told reporters following the vote. “It’s more about what are the most effective solutions, what are the programs and services that we think are the best way to go forward versus others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His counterpart on the Senate budget committee — Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Democrat — did not respond to an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">presented a plan last month\u003c/a> to address what his administration estimates is a remaining funding shortfall of $56 billion over the next two years, including dipping into reserve accounts, deferring school funding, eliminating government jobs and cutting or delaying money for infrastructure, health and climate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990469\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas talks to reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento on April 11, 2024, after the Assembly approved a measure to reduce the state budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders in the Legislature, where the party holds supermajorities in both houses, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-legislature-democrats/\">released a counterproposal a few weeks later\u003c/a>. Among the major discrepancies is a push for more substantial \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/californa-prison-closures-deficit/\">reductions to prison funding\u003c/a> to reverse some of Newsom’s proposed cuts to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-financial-aid-2/\">college scholarships for middle-income students\u003c/a>, public health programs, subsidized child care slots and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/may-revise-2024-homeless-housing/\">housing development\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor and the Legislature must also decide whether to repurpose billions of dollars that were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/medi-cal-health-care-budget/\">earmarked to increase payments\u003c/a> for health care providers who treat lower-income patients, as Newsom has suggested, and whether to further delay \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/minimum-wage-health-care-deadline/\">minimum wage increases for health care workers\u003c/a>, which could potentially save the state billions of dollars but faces strong opposition from unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel defended the process as “exceptionally transparent,” pointing to dozens of legislative budget hearings in which he said “there’s been a very public vetting of these issues” and “opportunities for Californians to weigh in.” He said he did not think any of the final solutions would come as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11985798,news_11986893,news_11989857\"]“I think Californians have a good understanding of what the major issues are that are at stake in this process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite ongoing negotiations over undisclosed provisions, Democratic lawmakers voted on Thursday to adopt their version of the spending plan because they must pass a balanced budget by midnight on Saturday in order to get paid. The bill passed by a vote of 29–8 in the Senate and 59–14 in the Assembly, along largely partisan lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans criticized the proposal as out of touch with Californians’ needs. They raised objections to provisions pausing some tax deductions for businesses to raise additional revenue and reversing previous commitments on expanded health care spending. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think Californians have a good understanding of what the major issues are that are at stake in this process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite ongoing negotiations over undisclosed provisions, Democratic lawmakers voted on Thursday to adopt their version of the spending plan because they must pass a balanced budget by midnight on Saturday in order to get paid. The bill passed by a vote of 29–8 in the Senate and 59–14 in the Assembly, along largely partisan lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans criticized the proposal as out of touch with Californians’ needs. They raised objections to provisions pausing some tax deductions for businesses to raise additional revenue and reversing previous commitments on expanded health care spending. Several members called out the inclusion of billions of dollars for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">state’s troubled high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and to expand \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">health care access for undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> while other programs are cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a shameful budget,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kate-sanchez-165419\">Kate Sanchez\u003c/a>, a Rancho Santa Margarita Republican, said during floor debate. “This budget is heartless, it’s divisive and it’s completely detached from the reality and the struggles that Californians are actually facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Bay Area counties could lose a collective $180 million annually if lawmakers pass the governor’s current budget proposal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The money is at the center of an ongoing battle between the state and counties with some of the highest property taxes in the state. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Napa and Santa Clara are the only five counties in California that generate more property taxes than their obligations to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, which is used to meet funding mandates for public schools across the state. The leftovers are called “excess ERAF.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, the state Department of Finance has said those counties are miscalculating the amount they owe to the fund by omitting kids in charter schools from their daily attendance counts. The state uses those figures to determine how much money it allocates to school districts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The counties thought recent lawsuits had settled the issue in their favor. However, under the governor’s current budget, charter schools would be counted for ERAF funding, which would essentially remove the excess property tax revenue that the counties use in their general funds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For more than 30 years, these revenues have been directed to fund K–12 schools, but charter schools have been recently left out of the equation,” H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for the state Department of Finance, said. “This proposal would ensure that all local educational agencies receive these funds.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, Matthew Hymel, then-Marin County executive, wrote \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.gov/departments/executive/budget-and-priority-setting/legislative-support-and-advocacy/legislative-3\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a letter to state lawmakers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> calling the move unconstitutional, saying it would cost the county $1.1 million per year, affecting some 65 governmental entities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“This is the latest in a series of attempts by the State Department of Finance (DOF) to take constitutionally protected funds from local governments for State use at the expense of local health and safety programs and services,” Hymel’s statement reads.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than $47 million is at stake in Santa Clara County, between the county and its cities. County Executive James Williams argues that the governor’s proposal goes against a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sca_4_cfa_20040729_111134_asm_floor.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2004 constitutional amendment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passed by voters that precludes state lawmakers from enacting new “ERAF shifts” to take property tax money away from local governments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There should be no more grab of local government money, and that’s why we’re urging the legislature to reject this,” Williams said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle Allersma, director of budget and analysis in the San Francisco Controller’s Office, said San Francisco alone risks losing $43 million a year, which it uses to pay for basic services. It began using excess ERAF in the 2016–17 budget year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We’re still kind of pulling ourselves out of the kind of pandemic aftermath,” Allersma said. “We’re still working on building back our local economy, so $43 million is objectively just an incredibly large number for us to backfill.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Williams said the dispute goes back to 1988 when California voters passed \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/2005/prop_98_primer/prop_98_primer_020805.htm#:~:text=Generally%2C%20Proposition%2098%20provides%20K,and%20local%20property%20tax%20revenues.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposition 98\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which guarantees funding for K–14 schools through a combination of money from the state’s general fund and local property taxes, creating ERAF. Property taxes fill those funding buckets first. If the counties don’t supply enough, the state’s general fund fills the rest. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area counties at issue have five of the six highest property taxes per resident in the state. That means their share of the buckets gets filled, and the leftover flows back into the counties to fund other services, like public health and safety. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The specific change that they’re proposing is to add another bucket: charter schools,” Williams said. “Today, that bucket gets filled by the state general fund. Instead, the Department of Finance wants that bucket to get filled by ERAF.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Finance previously tried to make that change through a directive from the state controller. That ended up with all interested parties in court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4193\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020 report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said the five counties were calculating their ERAF “in ways that seem contrary to state law and shift too much property tax revenue from schools to other agencies” to the tune of roughly $170 million per year. They anticipated that the amount would rise every year as property taxes increase.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, the Department of Finance said ERAF funding calculations should include charter school daily attendance numbers. In response, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-revenue-and-taxation-code/division-1-property-taxation/part-05-implementation-of-article-xiiia-of-the-california-constitution/chapter-6-allocation-of-property-tax-revenue/article-3-revenue-allocation-shifts-for-education/section-972-modifications-for-certain-fiscal-years\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state lawmakers compromised\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the five Bay Area counties, holding them harmless for past years so long as they followed guidance from the state controller. The Legislature passed the 2020–21 budget, assuming counties would meet the higher Proposition 98 guarantee by counting charter schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sco.ca.gov/Files-ARD-Local/sco_eraf_guidance.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the controller’s guidance (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, issued in February 2021, omitted charter schools from the definition of a school district in terms of ERAF funding “because they do not directly receive property tax revenue.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986893,news_11981977,news_11985798\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The California School Boards Association (CSBA) objected, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publications.csba.org/reports/ela/2022-annual-report/school-funding-educational-revenue-augmentation-fund/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arguing in a lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against the state controller that the guidance was unlawful, violating the California constitution’s minimum funding guarantee because charter schools should not be excluded from daily attendance-based funding or minimum property tax funding, with local funding being “passed through” a school district to the charter school. They estimated that nearly $1 billion was lost to excess ERAF at that time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three of the five counties — Marin, San Francisco and Santa Clara — intervened in the case. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2022, a judge found the controller’s guidance was within the law. The CSBA appealed, and local governments that use excess ERAF funding closely watched the case, with some even \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.milpitas.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3397/FY23-24-Proposed-Budget-20230425-FINAL\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">budgeting for legal bills in the case\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Last July, an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/cal-sch-bds-assn-v-cohen\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appellate court ruled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the controller’s and counties’ favor, essentially putting the issue to rest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or so they thought, until the release of the governor’s current budget proposal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To explicitly address charter schools and their interaction with existing ERAF distribution statutes, the Budget proposes statutory changes to clarify that charter schools are eligible to receive ERAF,” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the budget states (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the governor’s budget proposes counting charter school kids, the legislative version of the budget doesn’t. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if the governor’s proposal makes it into the final budget, counties would still have another year before the change takes effect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The worst case scenario is that they agree on it, and it goes into effect on July 1, 2025,” Allersma said. “If it goes into effect, it would be at least out one year.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State lawmakers are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/budget/californias-budget-process/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">required to vote\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the budget by June 15.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For years, the state Department of Finance has said those counties are miscalculating the amount they owe to the fund by omitting kids in charter schools from their daily attendance counts. The state uses those figures to determine how much money it allocates to school districts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The counties thought recent lawsuits had settled the issue in their favor. However, under the governor’s current budget, charter schools would be counted for ERAF funding, which would essentially remove the excess property tax revenue that the counties use in their general funds. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For more than 30 years, these revenues have been directed to fund K–12 schools, but charter schools have been recently left out of the equation,” H.D. 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County Executive James Williams argues that the governor’s proposal goes against a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sca_4_cfa_20040729_111134_asm_floor.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2004 constitutional amendment\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> passed by voters that precludes state lawmakers from enacting new “ERAF shifts” to take property tax money away from local governments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There should be no more grab of local government money, and that’s why we’re urging the legislature to reject this,” Williams said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle Allersma, director of budget and analysis in the San Francisco Controller’s Office, said San Francisco alone risks losing $43 million a year, which it uses to pay for basic services. 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That ended up with all interested parties in court. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4193\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2020 report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> said the five counties were calculating their ERAF “in ways that seem contrary to state law and shift too much property tax revenue from schools to other agencies” to the tune of roughly $170 million per year. They anticipated that the amount would rise every year as property taxes increase.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time, the Department of Finance said ERAF funding calculations should include charter school daily attendance numbers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The California School Boards Association (CSBA) objected, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://publications.csba.org/reports/ela/2022-annual-report/school-funding-educational-revenue-augmentation-fund/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arguing in a lawsuit\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against the state controller that the guidance was unlawful, violating the California constitution’s minimum funding guarantee because charter schools should not be excluded from daily attendance-based funding or minimum property tax funding, with local funding being “passed through” a school district to the charter school. They estimated that nearly $1 billion was lost to excess ERAF at that time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three of the five counties — Marin, San Francisco and Santa Clara — intervened in the case. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June 2022, a judge found the controller’s guidance was within the law. The CSBA appealed, and local governments that use excess ERAF funding closely watched the case, with some even \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.milpitas.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3397/FY23-24-Proposed-Budget-20230425-FINAL\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">budgeting for legal bills in the case\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Last July, an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/cal-sch-bds-assn-v-cohen\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appellate court ruled\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the controller’s and counties’ favor, essentially putting the issue to rest.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or so they thought, until the release of the governor’s current budget proposal.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To explicitly address charter schools and their interaction with existing ERAF distribution statutes, the Budget proposes statutory changes to clarify that charter schools are eligible to receive ERAF,” \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the budget states (PDF)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the governor’s budget proposes counting charter school kids, the legislative version of the budget doesn’t. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if the governor’s proposal makes it into the final budget, counties would still have another year before the change takes effect.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The worst case scenario is that they agree on it, and it goes into effect on July 1, 2025,” Allersma said. “If it goes into effect, it would be at least out one year.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State lawmakers are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/budget/californias-budget-process/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">required to vote\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the budget by June 15.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You can talk about guns at California state fairgrounds. You can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/07/gun-shows-are-the-kind-of-event-state-fairgrounds-were-designed-for/#:~:text=An%20attempt%20by%20a%20local,on%20free%20speech%20and%20association.\">advertise guns there\u003c/a>, too. You can even, in the words of a gun rights group, host “a celebration of America’s gun culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What you cannot do, according to a ruling on Tuesday by a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is buy or sell a firearm on property owned by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling upholds California’s ban on gun sales on state property, dismissing a challenge from gun show operator Crossroads of the West. The judges distinguished between the free speech rights of gun enthusiasts on public property and the sales that often take place at gun shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-gun-laws-policy-explained/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw65-zBhBkEiwAjrqRMIb9oXed9sqho1Hp-4LOllyxVQZzn--EVj6QOWK2JMEtKn-xxOKTmhoCXvgQAvD_BwE\">California gun laws\u003c/a> “prohibit accepting an offer to sell firearms or ammunition on state property,” the panel ruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads of the West first sued in 2018 when one of California’s agricultural district associations barred gun shows at Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego County. 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Dave Min,\u003c/a> an Irvine Democrat who advocates for limits on gun sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Rifle and Pistol Association, a Second Amendment advocacy group, called the ruling “extremely disappointing” and signaled that it would appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The three-judge panel clearly did not understand the connection between First Amendment and Second Amendment rights,” the organization wrote in a statement. “CRPA will continue to protect the despised gun culture and fight back against an overreaching government that seeks to limit disfavored fundamental rights and discriminate against certain groups of people on state property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads of the West argued in court that restrictions on gun sales at state fairgrounds violated its First and Second Amendment rights and that forbidding those sales would effectively kill gun shows at state fairgrounds. The appeals court panel ruled that that’s not a First Amendment issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization “may choose not to provide a forum for pro-gun speech if it decides gun shows are not profitable without firearm sales, but doing so would be its own decision, not the ‘inevitable effect’” of the laws, the judges ruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads of the West said some California legislators described the legislation as a “ban on gun shows,” but that alone doesn’t prove that the laws themselves were passed to suppress speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is virtually inevitable that elected officials will have underlying ideological views on political issues,” the judges ruled. “But even if California legislators hold personal animus against pro-gun speech, the statutes they enact only implicate the First Amendment if that animus manifests as legislation with the direct or inevitable impact of restricting speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the question of whether the laws violate the Second Amendment, Crossroads of the West argued that forbidding gun sales at one location impedes people’s constitutional right to acquire firearms — something the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held as part of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge panel disagreed, ruling that forbidding gun sales on state property doesn’t prevent people from access to firearms or ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are six licensed firearm dealers in the same zip code as the Orange County Fairgrounds,” according to the ruling. “Merely eliminating one environment where individuals may purchase guns does not constitute a meaningful constraint on Second Amendment rights when they can acquire the same firearms down the street.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the meantime, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a major gun case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which tossed out New York state regulations on who can carry a gun in public and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/06/california-gun-laws-supreme-court/\">threw California’s restrictive gun laws into chaos.\u003c/a> Gov. Gavin Newsom has since proposed \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/06/gavin-newsom-guns-constitutional-amendment/\">a federal constitutional amendment\u003c/a> restricting gun ownership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ruling ends an injunction from a lower court that blocked the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/county-fairgrounds-gun-shows-18457728.php\">restriction on gun sales at fairgrounds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The restoration of my ban on gun shows on state properties — including most of the county fairgrounds sites that are owned by the state — will make us all safer,” said \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/dave-min-165451\">state Sen. Dave Min,\u003c/a> an Irvine Democrat who advocates for limits on gun sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Rifle and Pistol Association, a Second Amendment advocacy group, called the ruling “extremely disappointing” and signaled that it would appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The three-judge panel clearly did not understand the connection between First Amendment and Second Amendment rights,” the organization wrote in a statement. “CRPA will continue to protect the despised gun culture and fight back against an overreaching government that seeks to limit disfavored fundamental rights and discriminate against certain groups of people on state property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads of the West argued in court that restrictions on gun sales at state fairgrounds violated its First and Second Amendment rights and that forbidding those sales would effectively kill gun shows at state fairgrounds. The appeals court panel ruled that that’s not a First Amendment issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization “may choose not to provide a forum for pro-gun speech if it decides gun shows are not profitable without firearm sales, but doing so would be its own decision, not the ‘inevitable effect’” of the laws, the judges ruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads of the West said some California legislators described the legislation as a “ban on gun shows,” but that alone doesn’t prove that the laws themselves were passed to suppress speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is virtually inevitable that elected officials will have underlying ideological views on political issues,” the judges ruled. “But even if California legislators hold personal animus against pro-gun speech, the statutes they enact only implicate the First Amendment if that animus manifests as legislation with the direct or inevitable impact of restricting speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the question of whether the laws violate the Second Amendment, Crossroads of the West argued that forbidding gun sales at one location impedes people’s constitutional right to acquire firearms — something the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held as part of the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-judge panel disagreed, ruling that forbidding gun sales on state property doesn’t prevent people from access to firearms or ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are six licensed firearm dealers in the same zip code as the Orange County Fairgrounds,” according to the ruling. “Merely eliminating one environment where individuals may purchase guns does not constitute a meaningful constraint on Second Amendment rights when they can acquire the same firearms down the street.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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