July 2025
K-12 Education
K-12 Proposition 98 Funding by Program
(Dollars in Millions)
| 2023-24 Final |
2024-25 Revised |
2025-26 Enacted |
Change From 2024-25 | |||
| Amount | Percent | |||||
| Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) | ||||||
| School districts and charter schools | $79,842 | $80,169 | $83,011 | $2,842 | 3.5% | |
| County offices of education | 1,431 | 1,437 | 1,469 | 33 | 2.3 | |
| Subtotals | ($81,273) | ($81,606) | ($84,480) | ($2,875) | (3.5%) | |
| Categorical Programs | ||||||
| Special Education | $6,226 | $6,350 | $6,473 | $123 | 1.9% | |
| Expanded Learning Opportunities Program | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,607 | 607 | 15.2 | |
| Child Nutrition | 1,783 | 1,846 | 1,937 | 91 | 4.9 | |
| State Preschoola | 1,830 | 1,378 | 1,835 | 457 | 33.2 | |
| Arts and music funding (Proposition 28) | —b | 907 | 1,045 | 138 | 15.2 | |
| After School Education and Safety | 770 | 795 | 795 | —c | — | |
| Student Support and Discretionary Block Grantd | 23 | 1,020 | 654 | -367 | -35.9 | |
| Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant | — | — | 379 | 379 | — | |
| Equity Multiplier | 300 | 303 | 310 | 7 | 2.3 | |
| Career Technical Education Incentive Grants | 300 | 450 | 300 | -150 | -33.3 | |
| Mandates Block Grant | 260 | 267 | 273 | 6 | 2.3 | |
| Charter School Facility Grants | 194 | 168 | 182 | 14 | 8.1 | |
| System of support for low-performing districts | 126 | 147 | 135 | -12 | -8.1 | |
| Student assessments | 99 | 108 | 108 | —c | -0.4 | |
| Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program | 90 | 99 | 90 | -9 | -9.1 | |
| State special schools | 80 | 78 | 78e | —c | 0.2 | |
| Teacher residencies | — | — | 70 | 70 | — | |
| Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program | 32 | 32 | 33 | 1 | 2.3 | |
| National Board Certification Incentive Grant Program | — | — | 30 | 30 | — | |
| Student Friendly Services (College Planning) | 24 | 26 | 29 | 3 | 11.5 | |
| SUN Bucks administration | — | — | 22 | 22 | — | |
| Safe Neighborhood and Schools Program | 27 | 22 | 22 | -1 | -3.5 | |
| Partnership Academies | 21 | 21 | 21 | — | — | |
| Career Pathways Program | 15 | 15 | 15 | — | — | |
| Statewide literacy and math networks | — | — | 15 | 15 | — | |
| California Collaborative for Educational Excellence | 8 | 6f | 12 | 6 | 100.6 | |
| High Speed Network | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 50.0 | |
| Transitional Kindergarten English language proficiency screeners | — | — | 10 | 10 | — | |
| Adults in Correctional Facilities | 9 | 9 | 9 | —c | 1.1 | |
| California School Information Services | 9 | 9 | 9 | — | — | |
| Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team | 7 | 8 | 8g | —c | 2.0 | |
| Transitional Kindergarten multilingual learner supplemental funding | — | — | 8 | 8 | — | |
| Refugee student support | 7 | 7 | 7 | — | — | |
| Agricultural Vocational Education | 6 | 6 | 6 | — | — | |
| American Indian Education Centers | 5 | 5 | 5 | —c | 2.3 | |
| State Seal of Civic Engagement | 5 | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Specialized Secondary Programs | 5 | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| School accounting system | 4 | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Access to opioid overdose reversal medication | 4 | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Equity leads | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Inclusive College Technical Assistance Center | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Regional English learner lead agencies | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | |
| Homeless Education Technical Assistance Centers | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | |
| Student teacher stipends | — | 300 | — | -300 | -100.0 | |
| Literacy and math coaches | — | 245 | — | -245 | -100.0 | |
| Literacy professional development | — | 200 | — | -200 | -100.0 | |
| Universal School Meals Implementation Block Grant | — | 160 | — | -160 | -100.0 | |
| Reading difficulties screening administration | — | 65 | — | -65 | -100.0 | |
| Special Olympics | — | 30 | — | -30 | -100.0 | |
| Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative fee transition | — | 20 | — | -20 | -100.0 | |
| Training for new mathematics framework | — | 20 | — | -20 | -100.0 | |
| Secondary school redesign pilot | — | 10 | — | -10 | -100.0 | |
| Reading difficulties screening tool | — | 10 | — | -10 | -100.0 | |
| Item bank for science performance tasks | — | 7 | — | -7 | -100.0 | |
| Instructional continuity | — | 4 | — | -4 | -100.0 | |
| Basic aid fire-related property tax backfill | 10 | — | — | — | — | |
| Other | 10 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 43.0 | |
| Subtotals | ($16,292) | ($19,191) | ($19,577) | ($387) | (2.0%) | |
| Adjustments | ||||||
| Payment deferral from 2024-25 to 2025-26 | — | -$247 | $247 | $493 | -200.0% | |
| Cost shifts from 2023-24 to 2024-25 | -$3,642 | 3,642 | — | -3,642 | -100.0 | |
| Cost shifts from 2022-23 to 2023-24 | 2,341 | — | — | — | — | |
| Miscellaneous revenues | -30 | -30 | -30 | — | — | |
| One-time fund swaps | -1,594 | -254 | -151 | 103 | -40.4 | |
| Cost shifts from 2025-26 to 2024-25 | — | 193 | -193 | -386 | -200.0 | |
| Payment deferral from 2025-26 to 2026-27 | — | — | -1,875 | -1,875 | — | |
| Other | -10 | — | — | —c | 17.3 | |
| Subtotals | (-$2,935) | ($3,304) | (-$2,003) | (-$5,307) | (-160.6%) | |
| Totals | $94,630 | $104,101 | $102,055 | -$2,046 | -2.0% | |
| a Excludes programs operated by nonprofit agencies. Includes $50 million each year for Quality Rating and Improvement System. | ||||||
| b Program received $938 million in non-Proposition 98 General Fund in 2023-24. | ||||||
| c Change of less than $500,000. | ||||||
| d June 2025 budget also provides $3.3 million in unspent prior-year funds to support the discretionary grant. | ||||||
| e June 2025 budget also provides $2 million in unspent prior-year funds to support the California School for the Deaf in Fremont. | ||||||
| f June 2024 budget also provided $4.3 million in unspent prior-year funds to support agency operations in 2024-25. | ||||||
| g June 2025 budget also provides $1 million in unspent prior-year funds to support workload related to the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles. | ||||||