Articles in this issue

• ACSA leads textbook cost debate
  At the request of ACSA, the Legislative Analyst's Office conducted research and issued a report on the cost of textbooks and the adoption of instructional materials.
• $364 million error found in May Revision
  Sometimes there’s such a thing as being too prompt. Although an ACSA budget advisory was released within hours of the May Revision’s announcement, a mere four hours after the ACSA Alert went out the Legislative Analyst’s Office announced it had discovered a technical error in the Department of Finance calculation of Proposition 98, creating a large shortfall in the May Revision.
• Delegates debate studies
  At ACSA’s most recent Delegate Assembly, association leadership took part in an exercise on the recent findings from “Getting Down to Facts,” the 22 studies on resource and governance reform published by SRI International.
• Educators lobby Congress for special education
  A group of educators and parents recently returned from Washington, D.C., where they had more than 30 meetings with members of Congress and their staffs to lobby for special education funding and related issues.
• California facing shortage of college-educated workers
  A new study by the Public Policy Institute of California has found that the state is facing a looming shortage of skilled, college-educated workers.