The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Chancellor ’s Office Then Ranks Projects Within Each Category. Districts typically submit more modernization and growth project proposals than available state bond funding can support. Each year, the Chancellor ’s Office uses certain scoring metrics to rank projects within these two categories.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool [Publication Details]

Feb 22, 2022 - The Governor’s budget includes several proposals related to State Preschool, with the primary goal of increasing the number of children with disabilities enrolled in the programs. In this post, we provide background on State Preschool, describe the Governor’s proposals, and provide our comments associated with these proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4555

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - As the state expands TK to serve all four ‑year olds, all districts will have greater ability to offer an inclusive program on their elementary school campuses, likely resulting in greater access to inclusive settings for four ‑year olds with  disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

2014 GDP: California Ranks 7th or 8th in the World [EconTax Blog]

Jul 1, 2015 - As shown above, California 's economy is of a size that would justify its inclusion in the Group of Seven (or Eight) industrialized nations, were it independent. This is because California's economy is larger than that of two "G7" members: Italy and Canada.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/90

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Version 4.0 creates new diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) requirements. Most notably, 4  percent of an applicant ’s awarded credit will be contingent on the submission and approval of several documents related to the applicant ’s efforts to set and achieve DEIA goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

The 2022-23 Budget: CalHR California Leads Proposal

Feb 28, 2022 - As  a result, practically all of the state ’s non ‑higher education executive branch employees —outside of the very top ranks of management (such as department directors and deputy directors) —are in the civil service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4564

An Initial Review of the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

Dec 13, 2021 - Third, grantees differ in their use of priority ranking. Some partner agencies within regions ranked all of their identified priority projects numerically or in tiers. In other cases, neither the RFFC grantee nor their partner agencies identified any prioritization of the projects in their regional priority plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4482

The 2025-26 Budget: Judicial Branch

Feb 12, 2025 - When proposing new projects, the administration generally follows the ranked project priority list identified in the judicial branch ’s 2019 assessment of facility needs. Since 2021 ‑22, the construction or renovation of about a dozen of the highest ranked immediate need projects have commenced.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4959

The 2025-26 Budget: Concession Bargaining

May 19, 2025 - Collective bargaining between the Governor and the state ’s rank-and-file employees (organized into 21 bargaining units) is governed by the Ralph C. Dills Act (Dills Act). The product of negotiations at the bargaining table is a labor agreement referred to as a memorandum of understanding (MOU).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5047

The 2020-21 Budget: Fresno Integrated K-16 Education Collaborative

Mar 11, 2020 - As the figure below shows, Fresno County ranks high among the state ’s 58 counties on certain education measures. In particular, Fresno County ranks high on the share of high school graduates enrolling in college within 12 months of graduation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4199