Rethinking California's Reserve Policy [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - Over the last few years, the state has indeed experienced significant fluctuations—large surpluses followed by significant deficits. This volatility has prompted interest in changes to the state’s reserve policy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5028

Breakdown of Local Control Funding Formula [EdBudget]

Aug 2, 2024 - b Includes funding for Necessary Small Schools. c Includes funding related to inter-district transfer students, support for the State Special Schools, the Education Protection Account, and $3.5 million to support the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/902

LAO Publications

An Analysis of the Effects of K-12 Payment Deferrals Format: HTML January 24, 2011 - Over the last several years, the state has deferred payments to school districts as a way to achieve significant Proposition 98 savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications?page=32&year=0&productid=7&categoryid=0

LAO Publications

An Analysis of the Effects of K-12 Payment Deferrals Format: HTML January 24, 2011 - Over the last several years, the state has deferred payments to school districts as a way to achieve significant Proposition 98 savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications?page=32&year=0&productid=7&categoryid=0

Assessing UC and CSU Enrollment and Capacity

Jan 19, 2017 - This shall include consideration of 5 – to 10 –year projections of the college –age population and public high school graduates. It also shall include consideration of data, for the most recent year available, on college preparedness, including the number and share of high school graduates completing the “ A –G ” admissions requirements and the number and share of transfer –prepared community college students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3532/1

LAO 2006 Budget Analysis: Migrant Education

(Under the federal school accountability system, schools that do not meet student performance goals for two or more consecutive years are classified as PI.) We have concerns with restricting the use of carryover funding in this way because only about 30 percent of the state’s migrant student population attends PI schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2006/education/ed_15_anl06.html

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program Introduction In recent years, the Legislature has modified the state ’s film tax credit in an effort to increase the diversity of the motion picture workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

An Update on California’s Cash Management Situation

Aug 31, 2020 - Meanwhile, the state ’s 2020-21 budget package took steps to begin payment deferrals to schools at the end of 2019-20. As a result, payments to schools in June of 2020 were only $300  million, compared to $6  billion anticipated earlier this year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4266

^[PDF] Overview of Last-Mile Broadband Infrastructure Project Administration and Funding

Assembly Bill 14 extends CPUC’s authorization to impose the surcharge that funds existing CASF accounts from the end of calendar year 2022 to the end of calendar year 2032. Recent Legislation Impacting Implementation of Last-Mile Projects L E G I S L AT I V E A N A LY S T ’ S O F F I C E 11 CASF: Federal Funding Account
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/socservices/2022/Last-Mile-Broadband-Infrastructure-040622.pdf

Funding for various brownfield-related activities. [Ballot]

Nov 29, 2021 - We assume that (1) the interest rate for bonds would average 4 percent, (2) they would be sold over the next 5 years, and (3) all bonds would be issued for a 25-year term. Based on these assumptions, the cost to repay the bonds would average about $140 million annually over the next 30 years, totaling $4.3 billion to pay off both principal ($2.7 billion) and interest ($1.6 billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-034