EdBudget Figures
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- Child Care Budget
- Preschool Budget
- 2025-26 Changes in Preschool Spending
January 2025
Child Care and Preschool
2025-26 Changes in Child Care Spending
(In Millions)
| General Fund | |||||
| Prop. 98 | Non-Prop. 98 | Prop. 64 | Federal | Total | |
| Monthly cost of care plus payments | — | $698 | — | — | $698 |
| Annualization of General Child Care slot increases | — | 76 | — | — | 70 |
| COLA for child care programs | — | 59 | — | — | 59 |
| CalWorks caseload and cost of care | — | 108 | — | -$57 | 51 |
| Child and Adult Care Food Program caseload and COLA | -$0.7 | 0.2 | — | 16 | 16 |
| COLA (2.43 percent) for Resource and Referral and LPCs | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Technical adjustments | — | 48 | -$32 | -109 | -86 |
| One-time adjustments a | — | -572 | -409 | -35 | -1,016 |
| Totals | -$0.7 | $420 | -$440 | -$186 | -$207 |
| a Includes prior year one-time costs associated with quality carryover, SB 140 carryover, child care infrastructure program, court cases, temporary family fee waiver, CalWORKs Stage One continuous eligibility, and initial CCPU retirement fund deposit. | |||||
| COLA = cost-of-living adjustment; LPCs = Local Planning Councils; and CCPU = Child Care Providers United. | |||||