March 2024 Volume 4 Edition 8

Governor Newsom presented his January 2024-25 Budget with a projected improvement to the deficit: estimating a $38 billion shortfall in State revenues. This is much less than the independent Legislative Analyst Office’s estimate of $68 billion in December. Governor Newsom’s approach to the Education Budget is to protect against the local impact of a nearly $12 billion reduction in Proposition 98 resources- school districts’ main funding source . The Governor is not proposing mid-year cuts, deferrals in funding, or education program rollbacks. The January proposal, to account for the shortfall, is to withdraw from the State reserves (Proposition 98 Rainy Day Fund), State internal borrowing, funding shifts, funding delays, and non-Proposition 98 deferrals. The Governor’s Budget offered some solutions to the State deficit with a few factors that will affect school budgets next fiscal year:

13000 New Airport Road Auburn, CA 95603 Phone: 530.886.4400 Fax: 530.886.4449 Placer Union High School District The cost of living adjustment for additional funding to PUHSD is a lot lower at a 0.76% COLA. The last approved budget report for the District included a 3.94% COLA increase for the District’s main funding stream. This is a projected decrease of $3.3 million dollars over the next two years. The District is projecting enrollment to continue to decline. The District has lost over 406 students in the last ten years. A reduction of one-time COVID Relief and Learning Recovery Funds where the District had received approximately $10 million dollars from 2021 to 2024. The District has been a good steward of our funding resources by steadily building a reserve to assist in carrying us through the projected State budget shortfalls.

The Placer Union High School District (PUHSD) is committed to ensuring equal, fair, and meaningful access to employment and education services and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. PUHSD prohibits discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics of age, ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical information, national origin, disability, parental status, political affiliation, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, retaliation, sex, sexual orientation, military or veterans status, homelessness, foster status, or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws consistent with Education Code 200 and 220, Government Code 11135, and Title IX. If you believe you have been subjected to discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), intimidation, or bullying you should contact Title IX Coordinator (Students) Steve Caminiti 13000 New Airport Road, Auburn, 530.886.4402, scaminiti@puhsd.k12.ca.us; Title II (Students) and Section 504 Coordinator Carrie Warda, 13000 New Airport Road, Auburn, 530.886.4443, cwarda@puhsd.k12.ca.us; and/or Title IX and Title II Coordinator (Staff), Elena DalFavero 13000 New Airport Road, Auburn, 530.886.4426, edalfavero@puhsd.k12.ca.us.

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