Summary of LAO Findings and Recommendations on the 2010-11 Budget

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 Go Back  California Department of Education Governor proposes to apply -0.38 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to most K-12 and child care and development programs (CCD). Recommend rejecting proposal and instead notwithstanding statutory COLA provisions. Applying a negative COLA after years of not providing positive COLAs is unreasonable. 2-19-10

Detailed Narrative

For more detail, please see the K-12 "COLA" and CCD "Reject Governor's COLA Proposal" sections of our report, The 2010-11 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education.