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Earlier this yr, the secretary of state's office gave sponsors of vi proposed instruction-related ballot measures the get-ahead to collect the 505,000 signatures each needed to appear on the November ballot. None qualified.

Those that barbarous by the wayside are two proposals that would have rewritten teacher dismissal and evaluations statutes, two that would have imposed hiring restrictions and new disclosure requirements for lease school operators and 2 that would accept given school districts added financial protections from the Legislature.

The one ballot measure that voters volition see is Proposition 44, Gov. Jerry Brownish's revisions to the rainy twenty-four hour period fund, which sets up a separate reserve for money from Proffer 98, the master source of state funding for Yard-12 districts and community colleges. Still awaiting Brown'due south OK is a school structure bond measure, which would total between $2 billion and $9 billion to fund edifice renovations and construction for 1000-12 schools, customs colleges, the University of California and California State University. Chocolate-brown is adamant to reduce the state's load of debt and wants to minimize the amounts of new bonds. He is negotiating with legislative leaders over his commencement priority, a water bond to build new dams and pay for water conservation efforts. Its size may determine whether the governor consents to put a school construction bond before voters.

The ane ballot measure that voters will meet is Proposition 44, Gov. Jerry Brown'south revisions to the rainy twenty-four hour period fund, which sets up a separate reserve for money from Proposition 98, the main source of state funding for K-12 districts and community colleges .

The proposed initiatives didn't qualify for the ballot considering sponsors withdrew their measures or didn't submit the required signatures. The measures included plans to:

  • Make information technology easier to fire teachers defendant of sexually assaulting children and other egregious forms of misconduct. Bill Lucia, CEO of the advocacy group EdVoice, the initiative'south sponsor, agreed  not to pursue the measure if the Legislature passed a neb achieving the same purpose. It did, and Dark-brown signed Assembly Bill 215 into law last month.
  • Rewrite the constabulary on instructor evaluations to require annual evaluations using student progress on test scores for at least one-third of a teacher's rating, and to use these evaluations, not a teacher's length of service or seniority, as the ground for determining layoffs. Consultant Matt David, affiliated with the national advocacy group StudentsFirst, created by one-time Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, didn't  launch a signature drive for the proposed initiative.
  • Prohibit low-performing charter schools from hiring intern teachers, who lack a education credential, and administrators who lack an administrative credential. This mensurate was sponsored by the California Teachers Association, which would have had to fund it. Karen Getman, a Sacramento chaser listed as the contact for the proposal, declined to say why the grouping did not collect petition signatures.
  • Ban for-profit charter schools, extend the state's open meeting law to lease schools and increase disclosure for potential conflicts of involvement involving current and erstwhile charter board members. Getman also was listed as the contact for this initiative. Claudia Briggs, spokeswoman for the California Teachers Association, confirmed that CTA decided to pursue  many of the aims of the initiative through Assembly Bill 913 and so withdrew the ballot measure. The California School Boards Association is co-sponsoring the bill, which is now awaiting action by the state Senate. The California Charter Schools Clan opposes the bill.
  • Return about $vii billion in property taxes to schools districts that the Legislature shifted to cities and counties in 2004 and prevent similar moves in the future through a constitutional subpoena. Sponsored by the San Francisco-based parents organization Educate Our State, the initiative would have undone a circuitous series of financial moves that gave counties and cities admission to school district property taxes to make upwards for the acquirement loss when sometime Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced the vehicle license fee. The swap fabricated school districts more dependent on country acquirement. Educate Our State was unable to gather enough signatures through volunteer efforts or persuade the Legislature to brand the changes, said Katherine Welch, who chairs the arrangement. If donors step frontwards to fund the petition drive, Educate Our Land may try once again in 2016, she said.
  • Go far more hard for the Legislature to issue belatedly payments to school districts by requiring a three-quarters vote of the Legislature before it tin push button a payment date beyond 30 days later on the due date. Over four years, starting in 2007-08,  payments to school districts that were put off to the next fiscal twelvemonth grew to well-nigh $ten billion, about a third of what the state owed districts. By the finish of this fiscal year, Dark-brown will have whittled that downwardly to about $1 billion, with plans to eliminate the remainder if there is additional revenue this year. This ballot measure out would have forced the land to repay it in full by July ane, 2022 and discouraged the state from making deferrals in the future. The arrangement Fund Cal Schools, based in Cool, Calif., sponsored the ballot measure and failed to submit enough signatures past the May borderline.

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