Center for Cities + Schools, 2014
Introduction: Seeking Options for California
California lawmakers are debating the future of the state’s role in providing school construction and modernization funds to local school districts – a school facility funding role the state has played since 1947. Previous statewide school construction bond authority is exhausted. The legislature is moving forward with Assembly Bill 2235 (The Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014), with an as-yetunspecified bond amount. The bill proposes only minor tinkering to the state’s current school facility funding program. However, Gov. Brown has signaled he wants fundamental changes to the competitive, “first-in, first-out” funding approach of California’s K-12 School Facility Program.
