The California State PTA believes that the Governor’s May Revision proposal continues to point the way to a balanced, responsible approach that includes budget cuts, plus an extension of some revenues.<\/p>\n
Although the headlines this week touted an additional $3 billion for K-12 education as a result of higher than anticipated state revenues, a final budget agreement is far from a sure thing.<\/p>\n
While the May Revision is an important step toward stemming the tide of more than $18 billion in cuts to education over the past three years, the Governor’s proposal still must be approved by the Legislature, and the revenue portions require a two-thirds vote of both houses.<\/p>\n
PTA members must continue to contact their legislators to urge them to support a balanced budget that protects public education and critical children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s services.<\/strong><\/p>\n Our key messages continue to be:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u2013\u00ba\u00c2\u00a0 Republicans and Democrats must work together to pass a budget on time. For Key points from the May Revision proposal<\/strong>, please click on this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The California State PTA believes that the Governor’s May Revision proposal continues to point the way to a balanced, responsible approach that includes budget cuts, plus an extension of some revenues. Although the headlines this week touted an additional $3 billion for K-12 education as a result of higher than anticipated state revenues, a final… Read More »May Revision of Governor’s Budget: PTA to Remain Vigilant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highlandscouncilpta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00e2\u2013\u00ba\u00c2\u00a0 We support a balanced approach that prevents deeper cuts to education and children’s services, because CUT$ HURT KIDS<\/strong>.
\n\u00e2\u2013\u00ba\u00c2\u00a0 We support the extension of temporary taxes to prevent cuts and ensure more stable funding levels.<\/p>\n