Education

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

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November 17, 2023 - This post summarizes the state’s 2023-24 spending package for child care and preschool. It is part of our Spending Plan series, which contains posts focused on each major sector of the state budget.

Update (12/20/23): Corrected total child care program costs in Figure 1.

Overview of Special Education in California

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November 16, 2023 - Presented to: Select Committee on Serving Students with Disabilities

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

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October 19, 2023 - This post summarizes the state’s 2023‑24 spending package for higher education. It is part of our Spending Plan series. In this post, we provide a short overview of the state’s higher education spending package, then cover spending for the California Community Colleges (CCC), California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), student financial aid, student housing, and California State Library. The EdBudget part of our website contains many tables providing more detail about the 2023‑24 education budget package.

The 2023-24 Budget: California Spending Plan Series

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October 2, 2023 - Each year, our office publishes California Spending Plan, a series of publications that summarize the annual state budget. The final version of Overview of the California Spending Plan is presented here along with short online posts that focus on major areas and features of the 2023-24 budget package. As these posts become available, we will add them below.

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of May Revision K-12 Education Proposals

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May 15, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of May Revision K-12 Education Proposals

The 2023-24 Budget: California State Library

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April 19, 2023 - This brief analyzes the Governor’s budget proposals for the California State Library. Specifically, it covers the Governor’s proposals relating to the California History Room, Witkin State Law Library, and State Library audit program.

Overview of Juvenile Justice System and Education Services in Juvenile Facilities

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April 17, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Public Safety

Evaluation of the California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Program

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March 29, 2023 - This statutorily required brief evaluates the California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Program, which the Legislature authorized in 2018 and funded in the 2019-20 budget. The brief provides background on teacher credentialing requirements and programs, describes the authorizing legislation’s requirements, provides our findings on implementation of the pilot, assesses the pilot, and makes an associated recommendation.

Overview of Teacher Workforce Issues

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March 15, 2023 - Presented to: Senate Committee on Education

Overview of Middle Class Scholarship (MCS) Expansion

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March 14, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance

Overview of Cal Grant Reform

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March 14, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance

Recent State and Federal One-Time K-12 Funding

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March 13, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance

The 2023-24 Budget: State and Federal One-Time K-12 Funding

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March 10, 2023 - In this post, we describe the recent one-time state and federal funding that can be used flexibly by schools, discuss reporting requirements, and share the latest information regarding how much funding remains unspent.

Correction (3/14/23): Reporting requirements in Figure 3 have been corrected.

The 2023-24 Budget: Student Housing

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March 9, 2023 - This brief analyzes the Governor’s proposals to delay certain funding for the Higher Education Student Housing Grant program and California Student Housing Revolving Loan program.

The 2023-24 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

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March 8, 2023 - The Governor’s budget proposes to increase base General Fund support for the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF) by $2.2 million (12 percent) in 2023‑24. After accounting for other revenue increases (primarily from student tuition revenue), UC Law SF’s total ongoing core budget would increase by $5.8 million (7.7 percent). We recommend the Legislature consider the base General Fund augmentation of 12 percent an upper bound. The proposed percentage increase is the largest among the education segments. Additionally, we recommend the Legislature reject the Governor’s proposal to provide one‑time funding for the school’s Urban Alchemy program. Given campus safety is part of the school’s core operations, we recommend program costs be covered using the school’s core ongoing funding.