If you can’t make – or weren’t invited to – Tuesday’s two-hour briefing at UCLA on how the budget might affect education, catch the live webcast on the California Channel or www.jerrrybrown.org.

With Gov.-elect Jerry Brown moderating and presentations by the Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor, future Department of Finance Director Ana Matosantos, Controller John Chiang, and Treasurer Bill Lockyer, the format for the first hour will be similar to last week’s briefing in Sacramento. The news out of that session was that the 18-month deficit had risen from the $25 billion forecast a month ago by the LAO to $28 billion.

But the second hour will be dialogue on the state of the education budget with a couple hundred invited superintendents, school board members, and representatives of higher education, labor, and other ed groups.

You can bet that Brown will be asked whether he agrees that K-12 schools and community colleges have already given more than their quart of blood. Education consultant Stephen Rhoads of Strategic Education Services has done an analysis that’s been passed around Sacramento showing that cuts for K-12 school funding under Proposition 98 have been disproportionately heavy – $6.9 billion or 12 percent since 2007-08, while other programs have been cut far less on average. That’s because schools must live on whatever the Legislature gives them, while theoretical budget cuts for prisons almost never happen and budgets this year for other state services assumed federal revenue that didn’t materialize.

The LAO has questioned a few aspects of Rhoads’ calculations, but his overall point remains valid. Schools have borne more on average since the recession.