Prop 28 · AB 2440
Prop 28 plans checked as you write them.
Every school's Arts & Music in Schools plan, checked against Prop 28 as it's written, before a mistake can reach your General Fund.
Free for every California district and county office. No time limit.
Prop 28 money arrives per school. The exposure lands on the district — and it is General Fund exposure.
Three things get districts written up: an allocation overspent at one site, money put where Prop 28 does not allow it, and an approval trail nobody can reconstruct two years later.
Each of those is the same kind of problem, because the remedy is the same. A disallowed expenditure has to be restored to the Prop 28 account, and it cannot be restored out of Prop 28 — you cannot use the fund to pay for something that should never have been bought with it. The money comes from somewhere unrestricted, which in practice means the General Fund, in a year nobody budgeted for it.
clearAMS works all three while the year is still open — the allocation is a hard ceiling per school, every line is screened for allowability as it is written, and the record of every version, decision and signature is written as the work happens. When your auditor, your board or the state asks, the record already exists.
Who it's for
One site expenditure plan per school, one record for the district. Everyone works in the same system, at the altitude their job needs.
The district's total Prop 28 exposure across all three years of the cycle, and a fixed annual line item you can defend to the board.
Educational Services or Business Services: program compliance across every site, certification status at a glance, and reporting ready before it's requested.
Reconcile plan lines against actual expenditures, keep Prop 28 coding cleanly separable from the General Fund, and hand your external auditor a record instead of a pile.
Build the site expenditure plan in a guided builder that holds the plan to its allocation and the 80/20 split, and flags allowability as you write, then take it to your School Site Council or straight to signature.
Review every school's plan in one queue, request revisions with comments pinned to the line, and keep the whole three-year cycle reconciled.
Try the guardrail
The two limits that are arithmetic, enforced.
Toggle the lines on this sample plan. clearAMS holds every site to its allocation and to the 80% staffing floor — in the browser and again on the server, so a plan over either limit cannot be filed. Allowability is screened as you write and flagged for your reviewer, who remains the decision.
More on compliance →Running total · FY 2026–27
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Free for every California
district and county office.
Every school's Prop 28 plan, built and filed in clearAMS at no cost — any district or county office, at any size, with no time limit. The allocation ceiling and the 80/20 rule are enforced on the free tier exactly as on the paid one.
Charter schools that are their own LEA are free below a size threshold; see how charters are handled.
An optional compliance tier adds the full three-year cycle and the audit record, priced by school level. We quote your district's exact annual figure on request.
Why clearAMS · 6:52
The whole story
Why Prop 28 needs this, how it works, what it costs, and how to pilot it this school year. Plan it runs in the middle.
The walkthroughs
See it in action
Six short walkthroughs, about fourteen minutes, played in order.
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Plan it
A principal builds a plan against the allocation and the 80/20 rule, then signs and formalizes it.
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Review and approve
Every school's plan in one queue, approved or sent back with requests pinned to the line.
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When it changes
A formalized plan revised mid-year, the cap re-checked against actual spending, a waiver where it is needed.
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The coordinator's desk
Authorizing staff, importing plans already written in Word or PDF, and splitting a line across years.
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Money in, money out
No connection to your ledger: allocations arrive as a file, mapped once, and reconciled across years.
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What it costs
Free for every district and county office, and what the compliance tier adds.
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Prop 28 guide
Common questions
Plain-language answers to the rules every plan is checked against. All guides →
What counts as arts staff, what falls in the 20%, the 1% admin cap and waivers.
The new AB 2440 test, step by step, with a worked example.
How the three-year window works and what happens to money left over.
Every change in the new law and a timeline for this school year.
A per-school list of what to prove, ready to print.
Find the gaps
before an auditor does
Thirty minutes with your business office. We'll walk your district's own allocation structure through the ceiling and allowability checks, and show you what the record would look like for a school you pick.