Proposition Summary

Preschool Education. Tax on Incomes Over $400,000 for Individuals; $800,000 for Couples. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute. • Establishes a right to voluntary preschool for all four-year old children. • Funded by a 1.7% tax on individual incomes above $400,000; $800,000 for couples. • Administered by the state Superintendent of Public Instruction and county school superintendents. • Directs counties to prepare reports on curricula, outreach, facilities, childcare coordination, budgeting, teacher recruitment and pay. • Limits administrative expenses; requires program audits. • Requires state Superintendent to develop a preschool teaching credential with financial aid for credential students. • Excludes revenue from appropriation limits, Proposition 98 calculations. Summary of Legislative Analyst’s Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: • Increased state revenues of about $2.1 billion in 2007–08, growing annually with the economy to around $2.6 billion in 2010–11, when the preschool program would be open to all 4-year olds in the state. • Revenues would be used solely for new state preschool program and would be spent to run the program, pay for facilities, train teachers, and provide an operating reserve

Proposition Number

82

Year

2006

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y:1958243;A:39.2;N:3036283;B:60.8;W:274616;C:5.21

Election Type

Primary

Proposition Type

Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute.

For Author

BARBARA E. KERR, President, California Teachers Association; STEVE KRULL, President, California Police Chiefs Association; EDWARD CONDON, Executive Director, California Head Start Association

Against Author

DR. TOM BOGETICH, Retired Executive Director, California State Board of Education; PAMELA ZELL RIGG, President, California Montessori Council; PATRICIA ARMANINI, Third Grade Teacher, San Rafael

Rebuttal Author

LARRY MCCARTHY, President, California Taxpayers' Association; THOMAS L. SIPES, Director, Montessori Schools of Petaluma; CHRIS SIMMONS, 2003 Teacher of the Year, Glendale Unified School District

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