EdBudget Figures
July 2025
Proposition 98 Overview
2025-26 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending
(In Millions)
| Revised 2024-25 Proposition 98 Spending | $119,946 |
| Technical Adjustments | -$7,960a |
| Proposition 98 Reserve | |
| Reserve withdrawal covering 2025-26 costs | -$455b |
| K-12 Education | |
| LCFF COLA (2.30 percent) | $1,753 |
| Transitional kindergarten (TK) expansionc | 927 |
| Discretionary block grant (one time) | 654d |
| Expanded Learning Opportunities Program | 526 |
| TK lower student to adult ratios | 517 |
| Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant (one time) | 379 |
| COLA for select categorical programs (2.30 percent)e | 176 |
| LCFF deferral repayent (one time) | 95f |
| Teacher Residency Grant Program (one time) | 70 |
| National Board Certified Teacher Certification Incentive Program (one time) | 30 |
| SUN Bucks administration | 22 |
| State Preschool monthly cost of care plus payments (one time) | 19 |
| Statewide literacy and math networks (one time) | 15 |
| TK English language proficiency screeners (one time) | 10 |
| TK multilingual learner supplemental funding (one time) | 8 |
| K-12 High Speed Network | 4 |
| CA College Guidance Initiative | 3 |
| Free Application for Federal Student Aid mandate | 2 |
| IEP template digitization and translation (one time) | 2 |
| Regional English learner lead agencies | 2 |
| Homeless Education Technical Assistance Centers | 2 |
| Instructional framework process reform (one time) | 1 |
| Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team salary adjustment | 1 |
| CA Association of Student Councils (one time) | 1 |
| Supplemental ELA/ELD guidance (one time) | —g |
| LCFF cost shift to 2024-25 (one-time) | -193 |
| 2025-26 payment deferral | -1,875 |
| Subtotal | ($3,148) |
| California Community Colleges | |
| COLA for apportionments (2.30 percent) | $217 |
| 2024-25 deferral repayment (one time) | 107h |
| Enrollment growth (0.57 percent)i | 40 |
| COLA for select categorical programs (2.30 percent)j | 30 |
| Common Cloud Data Platform (one time) | 12 |
| Rising Scholars Network | 10 |
| Credit for prior learning | 5 |
| 2025-26 apportionments costs covered with reappropriations (one time) | -133 |
| 2025-26 apportionments deferral | -408 |
| Subtotal | (-$120) |
| Total Changes | -$5,387 |
| 2025-26 Enacted Spending | $114,558 |
| a Primarily reflects removal of 2024-25 one-time funds. | |
| b The 2025-26 budget package uses funding from the Proposition 98 reserve to cover $405 million in K-12 costs and $50 million in community college costs. | |
| c Reflects additional LCFF costs associated with serving more students in transitional kindergarten, including costs of existing 12:1 staffing ratios. | |
| d The budget also provides $1 billion in 2024-25, $23 million in 2023-24, and $3.3 million in reappropriated funds for this purpose. | |
| e Applies to the Foster Youth Program, American Indian Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Charter School Facility Grant Program, American Indian Education Centers, Equity Multiplier, and K-12 mandates block grant. | |
| f The budget also provides $151 million in reappropriated Proposition 98 funds for this purpose. | |
| g Budget provides $250,000 for this purpose. | |
| h The budget also provides $137 million in reappropriated Proposition 98 funds for this purpose. | |
| i The 2025-26 budget package also increases the 2024-25 enrollment growth target by 1.78 percentage points (up from 0.5 percent to 2.28 percent), bringing the total amount of growth added across the two years to 2.35 percent. | |
| j Applies to the Adult Education Program, apprenticeship programs, CalWORKs student services, campus child care support, Disabled Students Programs and Services, Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, and mandates block grant. | |
| LCFF = Local Control Funding Formula, COLA = cost-of-living adjustment, IEP = individualized education program, and ELA/ELD = English language arts/English language development. | |