SEC. 16.123-9. STATE REDISTRIBUTION OF LOCAL EDUCATION REVENUES.
§ 16.123-9
San Francisco asserts that its voluntary contributions to the school district are City money intended to benefit local students and cannot be used by the State to reduce its own funding to the district; if the State attempts to redirect or offset these City funds, San Francisco will instead transfer the money to its Children's Fund to provide equivalent services.
San Francisco is saying that when the city spends extra money on schools beyond what the state provides, that money is for San Francisco's kids and families. The city doesn't want the state to take that as an excuse to give the school district less state funding. If the state tries to redirect the city's money elsewhere or use it to reduce state funding to local schools, San Francisco will move that money to a separate Children's Fund instead and use it there to provide similar programs and services.
- Controversial:The section addresses funding disputes between local and state government over education resources, a topic on which San Francisco residents hold varying views about local versus state responsibility.
- Complex:The conditional 'in the event' clause in subsection (b) creates a complex trigger mechanism involving potential state actions, and the cross-reference to Charter Section 16.108 requires external knowledge to fully understand the remedy.
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Official text
(a) The people of the City and County of San Francisco find and declare that major urban school districts, such as San Francisco, serve an ethnically and economically diverse student population that requires more resources than currently provided under state guidelines. In adopting this measure, the people of San Francisco choose to provide additional City resources to complement, and not supplant, state funding for the San Francisco Unified School District.
(b) Consistent with subsection (a), the people of the City and County of San Francisco specifically find that their contributions to and disbursements from the baseline appropriations and the Public Education Enrichment Fund are discretionary expenditures by the City for the direct benefit of the children of San Francisco, their families, and the community at large. In the event that the State attempts, directly or indirectly, to redistribute these expenditures to other jurisdictions or to offset or reduce State funding to the School District because of these expenditures, the City shall transfer said monies that would otherwise be distributed to the School District each year to the City's Children's Fund established in Charter Section 16.108, for the provision of substantially equivalent services and programs.
(Added March 2004)