(Jerry) Brown's budget gives education big boost
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Over the next few years, California's public schools will reap billions of extra dollars in revenue as the state slowly emerges from the Great Recession.
From 2011-12 to 2016-17, school funding will jump by $19 billion from $47.3 billion to $66.5 billion, according to Gov. Jerry Brown, who presented his revised spending plan for the next fiscal year on Tuesday. The plan includes a $2.9 billion increase in the current year.
But public education is the only area of the state budget that is seeing a significant increase in the revised budget plan. Democrats in the Legislature had anticipated a significant surplus for next year, but Brown said actions by the federal government - including the automatic spending cuts and the increase in the payroll tax - eliminated any such surplus.
The governor said his budget "is a call for prudence, not exuberance." He credited the passage of Proposition 30 by voters in November as key to stabilizing the budget and providing more money for education, but cautioned, "this is not the time to break out the champagne."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jerry-Brown-Public-schools-to-get-big-revenue-4515085.php
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Great man he is, and from a family of other great Brown's!
Jerry Brown -- may the force stay with you!!! 
