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Base Funding - What each school gets to cover essential costs, which is determined by factors such as student numbers, grade levels, and required staff.

Examples: Principals, teachers, clerks

Supplemental Funding - Can be used to keep current eligible staff members or hire additional staff, based on the unique needs and priorities of a school community.

Examples: Social workers, instructional aides, counselors, assistant principals, paraeducators

State = 70%

Local = 25%

Federal = 5%

Funding Sources: Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), which is based on student attendance and provides extra funds for focal students; targeted grants; allocations; and California lottery funds.

Funding Sources: City of San Francisco’s budget; voter-approved parcel tax measures; and other voter-approved sources, ie Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEEF).

Funding Sources: U.S. federal government to support specific programs like child nutrition and special education.

Unrestricted Funds = 60%

Restricted Funds = 40%

Primarily used for school-based supports, including salaries and benefits. Money in unrestricted funds can be reassigned from one category to another if needed.

Designated for specific programs or goals and cannot be used for other purposes.

School-Facing Examples: 

• Prioritize legally required translation services
• Reduce professional development
• Pause Environmental Science Center program
• Pause Shared Schoolyard Program
• Reduce access to student internships and work-based learning opportunities
• Reduced funding for non-classroom positions in schools

Central Office Examples:

• Direct resources to successful Frontline implementation
• Streamline administrative support
• Redistribute strategic initiatives across existing departments
• Prioritize key communications
• Reclassify upper management roles
• Outsource fingerprinting
• Prioritize select digital resources aligned to curriculum
• Delayed response times for student and staff technology service requests