K thru 12 Education
6110 Department of Education

California's public education system is administered at the state level by the Department of Education, under the direction of the State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the education of approximately 6.3 million students. Administrative branches of the Department include the Executive Branch; the Finance, Technology, and Administration Branch; the Curriculum and Instruction Branch; the School and District Operations Branch; the Assessment and Accountability Branch; the Government Affairs Branch; and the Policy Development and External Affairs Branch. More.....

MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
  • The budget includes proposals to reduce the 2008-09 Proposition 98 Guarantee that do not directly reduce program spending in the current year. These include the deferral of $2.6 billion of school district revenue limit and K-3 Class Size Reduction program payments from April of the 2008-09 fiscal year to July of the 2009-10 fiscal year, the use of $1.1 billion in settle-up monies, owed in satisfaction of prior year Proposition 98 minimum guarantees which were underappropriated, for school district revenue limit costs, and the use of $618.7 million of Public Transportation Account and Mass Transportation Fund resources for the Home-to-School Transportation program.
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Proposed
2009-10*
Positions
Dollars
10 Instruction
1,027.7
$48,661,707
20 Instructional Support
771
2,943,924
30 Special Programs
375.4
5,142,935
40 Executive Management and Special Services
50.2
14,862
42.01 Department Management and Administration Services
279.9
33,684
42.02 Distributed Department Management and Administration Services
0
-33,684
50 State Board of Education
8.5
1,946
98 State-Mandated Local Programs
0
-
99 Unscheduled
-10.5
-
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
2,502.2
$56,765,374
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
25,044
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
2,502.2
$56,790,418

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.

Refer to the Infrastructure Overview for infrastructure expenditure detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

Entire Department of Education Budget (pdf * - 490K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 6K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 33K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.
Revenue Limit Apportionments (pdf * - 134K)
This table provides school district and county office of education revenue limit apportionment totals less local revenues to calculate the state's share of K-12 revenue limit apportionments.

 Categorical Programs, Proposition 98 (Includes funding for Programs 10, 20 and 30) (pdf * - 139K)
Displays Proposition 98 and Proposition 98 Reversion Account Funding for K-12 Cateogorical Programs.

 State-Mandated Local Programs (pdf * - 135K)
Displays Proposition 98 expenditures by program for state-mandated activities in the education area.