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The Sacramento City Unified School District logo at the Serna Center in Sacramento on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n
JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS<\/p>\n
jvillegas@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
Sacramento City Unified School District said Thursday it made an error in its Proposition 28 spending report to the state and submitted a revised report showing it had spent its full allocation.<\/p>\n
The statement came after scrutiny over the district\u2019s initial report<\/a>, which indicated it had left unspent $1.8 million out of $6.3 million in state funding for school arts and music programs. It was the largest reported amount of unspent funding among California school districts.<\/p>\n Prop. 28 provides annual funding to school districts to expand arts and music education. Districts have up to three school years to spend each allocation, and any unspent money then reverts to the California Department of Education the following year.<\/p>\n \u201cUpon discovering an error in how the district originally reported this spending, Sacramento City Unified amended its Prop. 28 funding report to the California Department of Education,\u201d SCUSD wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n \u201cThe corrected expenditures report confirms that the district spent the full allocation from the state to support arts education for students and does not need to return any unspent funds.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the district\u2019s chief business officer Gerardo Castillo, Sac City Unified\u2019s initial report included only its 2025-26 expenditures and left out spending from 2024-25. \u201cIt\u2019s a clerical error,\u201d Castillo said.<\/p>\n Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the California Department of Education, confirmed that the district had submitted the revised report Thursday. The department does not approve or sign off on the reports, but independent annual audits determine whether the funds were spent as required by law, he added.<\/p>\n Prop. 28 allocates 1% of the state\u2019s Prop. 98 funding to K-12 arts and music education. Districts generally must spend at least 80% of their allocation on arts and music staff, while using the rest for training, supplies, materials and arts partnerships.<\/p>\n Through the Prop. 28 funding, Sac City Unified said it has added 32.4 full-time-equivalent arts positions.<\/p>\n Sacramento City Unified faces a $222 million structural deficit<\/a>, and its fiscal overseers have called for a \u201cfeasible\u201d long-term plan to address the crisis.<\/p>\n This story was originally published October 22, 2026 at 4:32 PM.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n
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