San Diego Unified School Board President Richard Barrera Explains Why Schools Need Prop 98 Funding

001urgently. San Diego Unified leaders are calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to release more than five and a half billion dollars in education funding. District officials say the money is being withheld in the current state budget proposal, and it's money they say could go toward special education, student recovery programs, and support for teachers and staff. Through what's called Prop 98 that the voters approved, uh you know, back in the late '80s, where roughly 40% of the revenue that comes to the state government is supposed to go to schools. But right now, the governor is in his budget proposal is proposing to hold on to nearly six billion dollars of that money, which is the equivalent of about 90 million dollars here in San Diego Unified. All of that is being withheld in a way that we actually don't think is even legal. The push comes as state revenues are coming in higher than expected, and just weeks before the governor updates his budget proposal