RUNNER EYES COLLEGE FUNDS; BUDGET PLAN WOULD EVEN OUT PAYMENTS TO CAMPUSES.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer There are 106 community colleges across California, and they receive varying levels of funding per student from the state government. An assemblyman's budget proposal aims to lessen that disparity. Assemblyman as·sem·bly·man n. A man who is a member of a legislative assembly. assemblyman Noun pl -men a member of a legislative assembly Noun 1. George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. , R-Lancaster, pushed for the inclusion of $8.9 million in so-called ``equalization'' funds in the Assembly's version of the 1998-99 California budget. The proposal was spurred in part on the funding level the state gives to community colleges in Lancaster and Valencia. ``Both Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. and College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. receive less funding than the state average,'' said Runner, whose 36th District includes both campuses. The matter is still being debated at the Assembly's committee level. Next month, the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: Peter Barton Wilson (born August 23, 1933) is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that next month. The deadline for the governor to sign California's budget into law is June 30. Runner said the differing amounts of money that community college districts receive from the state to run their campuses date back 20 years to the era in which Proposition 13 was passed. There were funding formulas in place that determined how much money was spent per student, he said. ``After Proposition 13 passed, the funding of schools shifted from local property tax (revenues) back to the state, and that created this inequity,'' Runner said. The money to pay for the equalization In communications, techniques used to reduce distortion and compensate for signal loss (attenuation) over long distances. is coming from the state general fund, he said. ``We have a $4 billion surplus this year.'' A complex formula is used to calculate the amount of funds the state gives to a community college. The state Chancellor's Office takes into account five categories, said Gary Cook, administrator of fiscal and business services for the 106-campus system. The calculations consider the level of need at each campus in the areas of maintenance and operation, student services like admissions and records, instructional services like curriculum development, classroom instruction and institutional support functions like security and administration, Cook said. In general, single-campus districts such as College of the Canyons and Antelope Valley College get reimbursed by the state at different levels than do multicampus districts, such as the nine-campus Los Angeles Community College District The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the community college district serving Los Angeles, California and some of its neighboring cities. In addition to typical college aged students, the LACCD also serves adults of all ages. . |
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