^[PDF] Analysis of Newly Identified Mandates

On March 24, 2011, based on claims fi led by 17 counties, 50 cities, and 6 special districts for the years 2000-01 through 2008-09, the commission estimated the state’s costs for this mandate to be $4.9 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2011/stadm/Newly_Identified_Mandates_6_1_11.pdf

^[PDF] Restructuring California's Adult Education System

Alternatively, individuals could participate in these programs through other local providers, such as senior centers and city parks and recreation departments. Establish Clear line Between Adult Education and Collegiate Education at CCC Recommend Establishing Clear Distinctions Between Precollegiate and Collegiate Instruction.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/adult-education/restructuring-adult-education-120412.pdf

^[PDF] A Review of the Teacher Layoff Process in California

Layoffs resulting from declining enrollment are allowed either when a district’s student count is below the previous two years or when an interdistrict student transfer agreement is terminated. • State law also allows districts to lay off teachers if they can show that they need to reduce a “particular kind of service.”
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/teacher-layoffs/teacher-layoffs-032212.pdf

^[PDF] Letter to Roger Dickinson

This arrangement may take the form of a JPA if it involves joint ownership of equipment. Similar arrangements have been pursued by northern San Diego County fire districts. In addition, Orange County’s LAFCO has established a website to help local governments share services to achieve efficiencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/stadm/letters/dickinson_102111.pdf

^[PDF] Understanding California's Property Taxes

A particularly large impact on assessed valuation tends to occur in years when a large number of these properties transfer from Proposition 13 assessment to reduced assessment. As shown by the dark bars in the figure below, recently sold, newly built, and decline-in-value properties typically account for more than two-thirds of total changes in countywide assessed value in Santa Clara County.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-primer-112912.pdf

^[PDF] California Community Colleges: A Progress Report on the Student Success Act of 2012

The legislation requires community colleges to create two-year (60 unit) degrees (known as “associate degrees for transfer”) that are fully transferable to CSU. A student who earns such a degree is automatically eligible to transfer to the CSU system.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/education/ccc-student-success/progress-report-SSA-070114.pdf

^[PDF] Analysis of Education Mandates

Analysis of Education Mandates
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/education/mandates/education-mandates-022614.pdf

^[PDF] Review of School Transportation in California

Finally, the budget package included a temporary requirement that requires any district that transferred a portion of its HTST funding to a JPA in 2012-13 to continue transferring that same amount until the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/education/school-transportation/school-transportation-022514.pdf

^[PDF] Next Steps for Improving State Accountability for Alternative Schools

This is why the scores of students who transfer to alternative schools midyear usually are attributed to the transferring school. This practice, however, leaves the state without a measure of the academic progress for which the alternative school is responsible.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/edu/alt-ed/improving-accountability-051615.pdf

^[PDF] Implementation Update: Reforming Transfer From CCC to CSU

CSU Fresno also did not recognize any of Sacramento City College’s courses as comparable to two other courses on its list. CSU Fresno did include argumentation among its options and accepted Sacramento City College’s argumentation course, but, as indicated above, argumentation was not required by CSU Chico.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/edu/reforming-transfer/reforming-transfer-020215.pdf