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The California School Boards Association is suing the Newsom administration, claiming that a state budget deal giving schools nearly all the money that they sought also violated a voter-approved method for setting annual school and community college funding.
In a lawsuit filed this week, the school boards association wants the Superior Court in Sacramento County to declare that the education budget violated the letter and spirit of Proposition 98, the four-decade-old formula that determines how much of the general fund must be allocated to schools and community colleges. The lawsuit would not affect this year’s budget, which took effect July 1.
CSBA acknowledges that the Newsom administration used novel strategies to hold schools and community colleges harmless from legally permissible funding cuts. But those tactics, they maintained, undermined the constitutionally protected funding guarantee;…
