Community College League of California: Budget Updates & Documents
Latest legislative actions & analyses, current budget status & more
Articles on California Community Colleges &Â the Budget Crisis
Links to articles--updated regularly--from newspapers around the state
California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office Budget News
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCC): Budget Information
California Budget Project
Independent fiscal and policy analysis of state policy issues.
California Tax Reform Association
Advocate for fair taxes in the context of a healthy public sector.
Complete State Budget Documents from the Department of Finance
California Legislative Analyst's Office
"California's non-partisan fiscal and policy advisor"
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)Â Statewide Survey: Californians & Their Government
Some findings of the January 2009 survey: A record-high number of Californians, 75 percent, say the state is heading in the wrong direction, and 77 percent expect bad economic times in the year ahead. For the first time, a majority of Californians support a budget reform allowing a 55-percent majority of state legislators to pass an annual budget, instead of the two-thirds majority now required.
Public Policy Institute of California report: Financing California's Community Colleges
This 2004 report describes funding trends for the CCC system & finds that CCC revenue growth has fallen behind that of other systems in both California and the rest of the nation, and that CCC's allocation system is ripe for reform. Recommends: fund CCC at level legislature guaranteed following passage of Proposition 98 & raise tuition and fees, currently the lowest in the nation, while maintaining broad access to the system through increased use of grants, tax credits & financial aid programs. Released 1-13-04.
Click here for Sacramento Bee story on the report.
CSU Budget Central
Latest news about the California State University system's budget situation
ArnoldWatch
Consumer watchdog website exposing truth behind Schwarzenegger's lies; a project of ConsumerWatchdog.org
Arnold's Top Contributors
Economic Policy Institute: Education page
Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington D.C. think tank, works to broaden the discussion about economic policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers.
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