LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Education, Class Size Reduction

We suggest that participating schools be allowed to select fr om among the following five reform strategies. Three of the strategies would involve some variant of class size reduction, in which participating school districts could reduce cert ain classes even further (for example, to 15 students per class), while ensuring remaining classes were enlarged by no greater magnitude (for example, no more than 25 students per class).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/education/ed_9_class_size_anl03.htm

How California Governments Respond to Disasters

Jan 10, 2019 - In doing so, FEMA considers whether the estimated/projected response costs exceed at least one of two thresholds—one for individual fires and one for multiple fires within a calendar year—based on the state’s population.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3919

^[PDF] The 2016-17 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

In many cases, the causes of these fluctuations will have been rooted in developments, such as hiring surges due to demographic changes or class size reduction policies, that occurred 25 to 30 years earlier.
https://lao.ca.gov/Reports/2016/3355/prop-98-analysis-021816.pdf

^[PDF] The Economic Impact Aid Program: A Sunset Review

A school district, however, may allocate funds to any school (even if its con- centration of students for the chosen ranking criteria is below the districtwide average) in which the concentration of either LEP stu- dents or students from low-income families exceeds 25 percent, or the concentration of low-achieving students exceeds 50 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/1987/429_0687_economic_impact_aid_program_sunset_review.pdf

^[PDF] Improving Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in California

We recommend providing up to a total of $75 million for the grant program, or $25 million per year. (This amount is linked to certain SSS reimbursement rate changes that we recommend in the next section—changes that free up about $25 million in state funds per year.)
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3498/education-DHH-students-092116.pdf

A proposed constitutional and statutory initiative related to poverty reduction. [Ballot]

Sep 4, 2015 - (Facilities and space usage may comprise no mo re than 25  percent of the total local match requirement.) The higher reimbursement rates apply to both the school-year and summer programs. Quality Improvement Funds in the Quality Rating and Improvement Enhancement Subaccount would be for increasing QRIS grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-043

^[PDF] Building Reserves to Prepare for a Recession

Under either statute, the state’s sales tax rate would automatically decline by one-quarter cent for one calendar year, equal to around $1.7 billion, reducing the SFEU by the same amount. Under the first statute, the trigger would occur if the Director of Finance projects the SFEU to exceed about 4 percent of General Fund revenues (currently, about $5.4 billion) in the prior and current year.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3769/prepare-for-recession-030718.pdf

2001 Budget Analysis: P&I, Part 1

The largest new program in terms of annual costs beyond the budget year is the Governor's proposal to add 30-instruc tional days to the academic year at middle schools. The budget provides $100 million for this purpose in 2001-02.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/2001_pandi/pi_part_1_anl01.html

^[PDF] Other: Discretionary Spending Proposals in the 2021-22 May

Other: Discretionary Spending Proposals in the 2021-22 May Revision General Fund (In Millions) Program or Department Proposal 2020-21 2021-22 One-Time or Temporary Ongoing CAC California Creative Corps Pilot Program — $60 — CAC Creative Youth Development Grant programs — 40 — CalVet CalVet deferred maintenance — 15 — CalVet Self-reliance program for homeless veterans (Homelessness package) —
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2021/4432/Other-Discretionary-Spending-Proposals.pdf

^[PDF] 1968 Budget Analysis: LOCAL ASSISTANCE

However, we recommend for Legislative review the proposal that the level of state s'upport for the preschool program be reduced from 25 percent to 15 percent of the total cost of the program and that the counties finance 10 percent of the program's cost.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1968/21_local_assistance_1968.pdf