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<p><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong>M</strong><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);">easure M raises $10 million a year and puts a special-education label on it.</strong></span> Read the measure and look for the sentence that says the district has to keep spending its own money on special education.</p>

<h2>Read Measure M. Here's what it does.</h2>

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<p>Help us tell voters what Measure M actually does — not one new dollar guaranteed for kids, not one rule on the board.</p>

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<p>Here's what county and state fiscal officials, the State Auditor, and Sacramento reporters have said about how SCUSD manages its money.</p>

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<p><strong>Measure M is written like a bait and switch.</strong> It raises $10 million a year, puts a special-education label on it, and asks nothing of the district in return: not a balanced budget, not a reserve, not a promise to keep spending what it already spends on students. As Measure M money comes in, the board can move its own money out. To anything it wants.<strong> <u>One sentence would have made this money for kids. They left it out.</u></strong></p><p></p>

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<h1>Measure M doesn't guarantee one new dollar for special education.</h1>

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<p>Since 2015, <strong>Sacramento City Unified has lost 7,000 students and added 38 employees. Its spending is up more than $240 million.</strong> The board just approved a retiree-fund deal on the consent agenda with no price tag — and the county had to stop it. That's not a district that needs $10 million with no strings. <strong>That's a district that needs to explain where the money went.</strong></p>

<h2>Where's the Proof?</h2>

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<p>After reviewing the district's revised budget, the head of the state's Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team said district staff had counted a one-time block grant and withheld state funding as if they'll recur every year. The district says the plan keeps it funded for two years — as long as the county doesn't overrule it again.</p>

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<h4>State fiscal chief on SCUSD's projections: "Monopoly money"</h4>

<p><strong>Measure M is written like a bait and switch. </strong>The ballot says special education. The measure says nothing about keeping the district's own money there. As the $10 million comes in, the board can move its own money out — to anything it wants. <strong>One sentence would have made this money for students. They left it out.</strong></p>

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<h2>Not One New Dollar for Kids</h2>

<p>The district's own September plan started from a $229 million deficit and still misses the reserve state law requires by $25 million every year. <strong>It balances only by counting one-time money as ongoing and leaning on a labor deal put on hold, because it was potentially illegal</strong>. The state's fiscal crisis chief called it "Monopoly money."<strong> Measure M isn't even in the plan.</strong></p>

<h2>FIX THE BUDGET FIRST</h2>

<p>No independent citizens' committee. No end date — the tax runs "until amended or repealed by voters," with increases every year. No requirement to balance a budget or fix anything. <strong>The superintendent writes a report and hands it to the board that spends the money. That's the entire oversight structure.</strong></p>

<h2>No Safeguards or Oversight</h2>

<p>The board approved $208 million in budget revisions. The district's own finance chief told trustees the year-end cash balance could fall to about $1.7 million if only 40% of the planned cuts actually happen.</p>

<h4>Cash outlook hinges on cuts</h4>

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