Total Changes in California Community Colleges Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget]

January 2024

Total Changes in California Community Colleges Proposition 98 Spending

2022-23 Through 2024-25 (In Millions)

Ongoing Spending
COLA for apportionments (0.76 percent)	$69
Student Success Completion Grant (caseload adjustment)	50
Enrollment growth (0.5 percent)	30
COLA for select categorical programs (0.76 percent)^a	9
Subtotal	($158)
One-Time Initiatives
Nursing education	$60^b
Subtotal	($60)
Reductions
2022-23 reduction to apportionments	-$910^c
Subtotal	(-$910)
Total Changes	-$692
^a 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 the mandates block grant.
^b Reflects the first year of a five-year program totaling $300 million.
^cThe administration indicates its intent to introduce a proposal through trailer bill language that would insulate community colleges from the programmatic effects of this reduction.
COLA = cost-of-living adjustment.