No More School Facility Bond Debt in California

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NO MORE SCHOOL FACILITY BOND DEBT IN CALIFORNIA

Thanks to California's new education funding law that intentionally underfunds California public education, the State is now $1.3 trillion in debt (mostly school debt). California has $337 billion in local school facility bond debt. This does not include state school facility bond debt, and federal CREB bond debt used to pay for Solar Panels and other Green Energy Projects.

The Federal government should pull all Federal education dollars from the State of California until the State meets its constitutional obligations to California residents.

Under the State's new education funding law, per pupil funding is limited to 2007-08 levels plus inflation. This means that the Capistrano Unified School District's per pupil funding will remain at or below $10,000 per pupil into the foreseeable future.

The State has been (and will continue) to intentionally underfund low poverty school districts. That is how the Governor and the State Legislature have been able to accumulate money to spend on new programs and entitlements that are not voted on by the people, and are not Constitutionally mandated.

The funding law violates the civil rights of every student who attends a public school with a low percentage of students who are English Language Learners, Receiving Free and Reduced Lunch and/or are in Foster Care.

Under the LCFF formula, low poverty districts are funded almost entirely by the Base Funding Grant. As such, the Base Funding Grant needs to be set at an amount that is sufficient to provide every student with equal opportunity to receive a quality education.

In December 2006 the State commissioned a study to determine the cost to provide every student with equality of educational opportunity. The study concluded that no child in the state of California could be educated for less than $8,932 per pupil. The State set the Base Funding Grant at $6,500 and began to accumulate a large revenue stream that the State uses to fund new programs and entitlements for illegal immigrants, green energy projects, high speed rail, to redistribute wealth and promote a progressive political agenda in our schools.

In the Capistrano Unified School District, the continued lack of adequate funding has resulted in a continued decline of academic performance across all demographics.
California is now 46th in the Nation in education.

The "Base Grant" is universal for all students.

The "Supplemental Grant" provides additional funding to districts based on the percentage of students in the district that are English Language Learners, Receiving Free and Reduced Lunch, and/or are in Foster Care.

The "Concentration Grant" provides even more funding for districts that have large concentrations of students that are English Language Learners, Receiving Free and Reduced Lunch, and/or are in Foster Care.

The Capistrano Unified School District is intentionally underfunded by the State of California; which is why CUSD is now asking the voters for a school facility bond in the amount of $700 million dollars, to fix and maintain facilities (maintenance).

CUSD has chosen to spend 90% of its budget on employee compensation, rather than fix and maintain facilities. Employees have received across the board compensation increases every year since 2010. Average teachers compensation has gone from $95,000 to $120,000 (salaries, pensions and benefits). Our Superintendent makes over $425,000 dollars.

The Federal Government should pull all federal funding from California's Public Schools because our students in K-12 are not receiving the funding they are constitutionally entitled to. They are forced to attend school in facilities that are not safe, in classrooms that are overcrowded, and the new curriculums that are being written by political activists such as the new AB 329 Comprehensive Sexual Health Education curriculum are not medically accurate, not age appropriate and actually teach children as young as 5 to engage in behaviors that might actually harm them (with no ability for parents to opt their children out).

Our California Public Universities are no longer admitting California resident students as mandated by state law and the University of California Master Plan for Higher Education. Instead, California campuses sell resident seats to out of state and international students, and then provide subsidized seats for undocumented students through California's new TAG program where undocumented community college transfer students are guaranteed a seat over recent high school graduates.

The University of California has cut the number of ADMITS to Native American students and White students graduating from private schools by and (71% and 48% respectively). This is despite state law that guarantees an "appropriate" admit to every California resident student who graduates from a California high school in the top 12.5% of their high school graduating class.

There needs to be a Federal Criminal Investigation into the Admissions Policies and Finances of the Office of the President of the University of California The California Auditor felt the conduct of the University of California was so egregious that the California taxpayers deserved recompense.

See Civil Rights Complaint

See: Capistrano Unified School District Resolution No. 1920-27, RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE PRIORITIZATION OF CALIFORNIA RESIDENT STUDENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CUSD BOT Meeting September 18, 2019 Agenda Item #53 at page 897

See: The City of San Clemente's Resolution No. 19-40 in support of the Prioritization of California Resident students for Admission to the University of California. The City of San Clemente strengthened the Resolution by adding language that will ask the State Attorney General to review the admissions policies of the University of California and to seek RECOMPENSE (a check- financial compensation) for every San Clemente student that was denied admission to an "appropriate" UC campus due to discriminatory admissions practices.

PLEASE VOTE NO on Capistrano Unified School Districts March 2020 Bond Measures. They should be asking the State to provide adequate funding.