EdBudget Figures
July 2025
Proposition 98 Overview
2024-25 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending
(In Millions)
| 2024-25 Budget Act Spending | $115,283 |
| Technical Adjustments | $716 |
| Proposition 98 Reserve | |
| Reduction of discretionary deposit | -$599a |
| K-12 Education | |
| Discretionary block grant | $1,020b |
| Student teacher stipends | 300 |
| Literacy coaches | 215 |
| Literacy instruction professional development | 200 |
| Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) cost shift from 2025-26 | 193 |
| Universal school meals block grant | 160 |
| Career technical education (pending legislation) | 150 |
| LCFF cost shift from 2023-24 | 72 |
| Reading difficulties screening administration | 40 |
| Mathematics Professional Learning Partnership | 30 |
| Special Olympics | 30 |
| Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative bridge funding | 20 |
| Secondary school redesign pilot | 10 |
| Reading difficulties screening tool | 10 |
| Special education unspent funding | -173 |
| Subtotal | ($2,278) |
| California Community Colleges | |
| 2024-25 apportionments shortfall coverage | $210 |
| Enrollment growthc | 100 |
| Student support block grant | 60 |
| Career passports | 25 |
| Credit for prior learning | 15 |
| Dreamer Resource Liaisons | 15 |
| EMT/paramedic preapprenticeships | 10 |
| Healthy School Food Pathway program | 10 |
| eTranscript backfilld | 7 |
| Financial aid outreach | 5 |
| Los Angeles regional workforce development initiative | 5 |
| Santa Rosa Junior College fire academy tower | —e |
| 2024-25 apportionments costs covered with reappropriations | -110 |
| Subtotal | ($352) |
| Unallocated funds (settle up)f | $1,917 |
| Total Changes | $4,663 |
| 2024-25 Revised Spending | $119,946 |
| aThe 2025-26 budget package includes a $455 million deposit into the Proposition 98 Reserve for 2024-25. | |
| bThe 2025-26 budget package also provides $654 million in 2025-26, $23 million in 2023-24, and $3.3 million in reappropriated funds for this purpose. | |
| cThe 2025-26 budget package increases the 2024-25 enrollment growth target by 1.78 percentage points (from 0.5 percent to 2.28 percent). It also funds 0.57 percent growth beginning in 2025-26, bringing the total amount of growth added across the two years to 2.35 percent. | |
| dThe 2024-25 Budget Act authorized $12 million in reappropriated Proposition 98 funds for this purpose, but only $5.4 million was available. The 2025-26 budget package covers the shortfall. | |
| eBudget provides $125,000 for this purpose. | |
| fThe state is required to allocate this amount for schools and community colleges in the future, assuming no changes to the estimate of the Proposition 98 guarantee. | |
| EMT = emergency medical technician. | |