Education officials are also weighing in on Governor Newsom’s revised state budget proposal. With revenues continuing to defy projections, schools and community colleges would receive a record 128-billion dollars for the 2022-2023 term. That’s 20-billion more than the original plan he released just five months earlier. Nevada County Superintendent of Schools, Scott Lay, says it still includes a levelling of post-pandemic revenue loss, from enrollment declines, by letting districts switch to a three-year rolling attendance model…

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But Lay says he’s not sure about a proposal for an expanded learning initiative. It would lengthen the school day to nine hours, with before and after-school activities, and extend the year with  six weeks of summer programs for children in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade…

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Lay also likes Newsom’s plan to give districts eight-billion dollars in one-time discretionary funding, distributed on a per-student basis. But he’s not sure another one-point-eight billion dollars, for a total of three-billion, for school facility construction and modernization will trickle down to the smaller, rural districts, including in Nevada County.