Protect School Funding

Urge Senate to Adopt Assembly's Jobs & Education Budget

Urge the California State Senate to adopt the Assembly Budget plan – “the Jobs and Education Budget.” Under the Assembly proposal, education and other critical children’s services would not suffer any additional cuts. In fact, public schools would receive nearly $6 billion more in vital education funding than Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s May Revision would provide. The Assembly budget proposal increases revenues, honors the commitment made less than a year ago by the governor and the Legislature to California’s students, and does not suspend or manipulate the Proposition 98 Constitutional funding  guarantee. The governor’s proposal would cut another $4.1 billion from schools, on top of the $17 billion already sliced away. The Assembly plan would also increase funding for the CSU by $365 million without enacting draconian cuts to basic state services and K-12 education.

Background

Assembly Speaker John Perez on May 25, CTA Presidents Lobby Day, unveiled a new Assembly Jobs and Education Budget that included $5.9 billion in funding more than the governor’s May Revision. While the Senate’s budget version also contains more school funding than the governor’s, it falls far short of the amounts in the Assembly version.

Currently, the members of a joint conference committee on the budget are deliberating over each provision of the separate Assembly and Senate versions. They will seek to forge a compromise measure, and educators’ speaking up to members of the entire Senate can help ensure that the Assembly’s funding proposal to public schools is incorporated into the final spending plan.  That’s why it’s vital for school supporters to contact their state Senator to urge her/him to support the Assembly’s education investment plan.

See below for the names and contact information for the Joint House Budget Conference Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny (D-San Diego).

When this committee finishes its budget draft, the plan will go back to both houses of the legislature for action and then to the governor for his approval. Lawmakers have already missed the June 15 constitutional deadline for sending a measure to the governor. 

CTA Coordinators: Contact Lawmakers

Get in touch with your state Senator and the members of the joint conference committee on the budget. Mobilize your colleagues, friends, family members, and school supporters to do the same.

 Urge your Senator to support the Assembly’s Jobs and Education Budget as it protects schools and colleges from additional budget cuts, boosts education funding by $5.9 billion over the governor’s May Revision and protects the state’s minimum school funding law.

 Tell lawmakers how the cuts are affecting your students!  Call your lawmaker by using CTA’s new text-to-call system. (Note: your phone carrier may impose a slight text message charge.)  Text 69866 and enter Prop98. You will be prompted to enter your name, voting address and then you will be connected to your Senator. 

Joint Budget Committee Members

Denise Ducheny (Chair)  
State Capitol
Room 5035
Sacramento, CA  95814
(916) 651-4040
     
637 3rd Ave., Suite A-1
Chula Vista, CA  91910
(619) 409-7690

Bob Blumenfield (Vice Chair)
State Capitol
Room 6026
Sacramento, CA 94249-0040
(916) 319-2040

6150 Van Nuys Boulevard, Suite 300
Van Nuys, CA 91401
(818) 904-3840

Connie Conway
State Capitol
Room 6027
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 319-2034

133 N. Church Street, Ste 505
Visalia, CA 93291
(559) 636-3440

Bob Dutton 
State Capitol
Room 5094
Sacramento, CA 95814 
(916) 651-4031

8577 Haven Street, Ste 210 
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
(909) 466-4180
   
3780 Market Street
Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 715-2625

Felipe Fuentes 
State Capitol
Room 2114
Sacramento, CA 95814   
(916) 319-2039

9300 Laurel Cyn. Blvd., First Floor
Arleta, CA 91331
(818) 504-3911

Bob Huff
State Capitol
Room 3048
Sacramento, CA 95814  
(916) 651-4029

2088 Amar Rd. #205    
Walnut, CA 91789
(909) 598-3981

Mark Leno   
State Capitol Room 4061
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 651-4003

455 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-1300

3501 Civic Center Drive #425
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 479-6612

Alan Lowenthal   
State Capitol Room 2032
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 651-4027

115 Pine Avenue, Ste 430
Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 495-4766

Jim W. Nielsen
State Capitol
Room 6031
Sacramento, CA 95814  
(916) 319-2002

280 Hemsted Drive, Ste. 110
Redding, CA 96002
(530) 223-6300

1527 Star Drive, Ste U
Yuba City, CA 95993
(530) 751-8351

Nancy Skinner   
State Capitol
Room 4126
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 319-2014

1515 Clay Street, Rm. 2201
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 286-1400 

 

For more information, contact CTA Legislative Advocate Estelle Lemieux or GR Communications Consultant Len Feldman at 916.325.1500.