Is there a Plan B for the state budget if California's Proposition 30 fails?

Sacramento Bee ^ | 11/4/12 | Kevin Yamamura

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Gov. Jerry Brown has framed it as a simple choice for voters: Pass Proposition 30 or schools will suffer early shutdowns and college students will pay higher tuition.

But education leaders privately have discussed fallback efforts to spare schools from some of the worst consequences, especially after the initiative fell below 50 percent in recent polls.

School groups are expected to lobby hard to reverse or ease budget reductions headed their way if voters reject Proposition 30. They have two main paths: the Capitol or the courts.

"The education community will use every tool at its disposal to fight the cuts," said Kevin Gordon, a longtime K-12 lobbyist.

Brown insists the budget is a closed book. He says he will not revisit the prescribed cuts to education, so schools must deal with less funding this year if voters reject Proposition 30. He promises to be a stubborn gatekeeper, no matter how hard education forces lobby.

"The cuts are in the budget, the law of California," Brown said Thursday in San Francisco. "They cannot be changed unless the Legislature wants to reverse it and the governor signs the bill, and I won't sign the bill. You can take that to the bank."

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Not one damn person in ALL OF THE MEDIA has ever bothered to ask the most basic question::

If enrollment in our Public Schools is going DOWN by between 5% and 10% Annually, WHY DO THEY NEED MORE MONEY??

In other words We have fewer Students than last year, and last year had fewer than the previos year, ( for about 10 years now) WHY DO THEY NEED MORE MONEY?