May 2008 Volume 21 No. 10 Breaking News on Deficit Funding California Community Colleges Receive Large Gift Results of PPIC Poll on State Education Funding Update on Budget Hearings We Are Not Alone Professional Standards/Reminders—Position Control (Fourth in a Series) Is the Governor Signaling a Collapse of Revenues at May Revision? Judge Appears to Signal Win in Lawsuit Against the State Controller And the 2008-09 Statutory COLA Is . . . 5.66% April Tax Receipts Exceed Forecast California Public Employees’ Retirement System Resignations By the Way . . . Health Care Reform Revisited Senator Jack Scott Named Community College Chancellor By the Way . . . PERS Employer Contribution Rate Announced for 2008-09
April 2008 Volume 21 No. 9 Financial Aid Update Demographic Study Update on Leadership Changes Community College and General Budget Update Professional Standards/Reminders—Enrollment Projections and Average Daily Attendance (Third in a Series) Ask SSC . . . How Should a Basic Aid District Designate Excess Reserves? March Revenues Fall Short—Corporate Profits to Blame Budget Subcommittees Tackle Proposal to Change the COLA SSC-Axiom Mandate Partnership State Jobless Rate Jumps Ask SSC . . . Why Does School Services Rely on the Department of Finance’s Finance Bulletin for Tracking Tax Receipts? Legislative Republicans Propose to Fully Fund Proposition 98 Education Funding, Proposition 98, and the May Revision By the Way . . . PERS to Distribute Medicare Retiree Drug Subsidy STRS Actuarial Assumptions STRS Presents Adequacy Study
April 2008 Volume 21 No. 8 April Fool’s Joke Goes Sideways By the Way . . . Assembly Member Portantino Reinstated as Chair of the Higher Education Committee Final ARCC Report Growth Funding Professional Standards/Reminders (First in a Series) Several Student Loan Bills Pending at State and Federal Levels Freezing Step and Column Costs Cost-Cutting Recommendations Released by PHOOL By the Way . . . Evolution Continues We Can See the Economic Dominoes Falling Budget Update State Budget Rumors Swirl—We Caution to Sit Tight State Controller Audits the Expenses of an Event Put on by the California Lottery Professional Standards/Reminders—Budget Assumptions (Second in a Series) STRS Sponsors Bills to Address IRAs, Postretirement Earnings, and Technical Clean-Up