Charter Currents: Newsom’s May Budget Revision Calls for “Hold Harmless” and Funding Boosts

Governor Newsom this morning released summary highlights of his May Revise updates to his 2022-23 state budget, calling for a litany of massive education funding increases, targeting much of the increased education spending for one-time augmentations. The May Revise calls for protecting schools from attendance-related funding losses, but snubs nonclassroom-based charter schools while also calling for massive one-time augmentations to several new and existing initiatives.