^[PDF] "California Clean Money/Clean Elections Act of 2004"

Under the measure, the state would impose a new oil severance tax for six calendar years beginning in 2005. The state will have roughly 36 million residents in that first year. As a result, at the required rate to raise $5 per resident, the new tax would generate about $180 million in its first year.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2003/030938.pdf

Year–Three Survey: Update on School District Finance in California

Most districts maintained their shorter school years in 2011 –12. (The 2011 –12 budget package allowed districts to reduce the school year to 168 days since midyear "trigger" cuts were implemented. Our survey data, however, indicate districts did not take advantage of this option.)
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/edu/year-three-survey/year-three-survey-050212.aspx

^[PDF] Homeowners and renters tax relief

(Because the measure’s changes would be effective midway through the 2016-17 fiscal year, smaller revenue losses in 2016-17 are possible.) As mentioned above, the measure stipulates that this decrease in state revenue would not affect state funding provided to schools and community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2015/150286.pdf

Overview of the 2004-05 May Revision

Third, the May Revision scores less savings ($39  million) from the proposal to shift 11- and 12-year-olds receiving child care to after school programs because it recognizes that some families may not have access to appropriate after school programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/2004/may_revision/011704_may_revision.htm

^[PDF] Evaluating the Governor's Career-Technical Education Proposal

Facility Funding Needs to Support Program Goals LAO 65 YEARS OF SERVICE 3L E G I S L A T I V E A N A L Y S T ’ S O F F I C E February 1, 2006 Payoffs to Current High School CTE Are Low. Dropouts: no effect.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2006/Career_Tech_060096.pdf

The 2012-13 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

The Governor's budget increases total Proposition 98 funding by $4.9 billion, or 10 percent between the current year and the budget year. As shown in Figure 8, the year–over–year increases in Proposition 98 General Fund for schools and community colleges are larger—15 percent and 14 percent, respectively, with local property tax revenues estimated to be virtually flat.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/bud/budget_overview/budget-overview-011112.aspx

^[PDF] How Fast Is the College-Age Population Growing?

California Public College Participation Rates Among 18- to 24-Year Olds 25
https://lao.ca.gov/sections/higher_ed/FAQs/Higher_Education_Issue_12.pdf

^[PDF] LAO 1998 Perspectives and Issues: State Fiscal Picture

Instructional Minutes • Lengthens the school day at most middle schools and high schools by requiring schools to exclude the time between class periods (known as “passing time”) from district calculations of in- structional time.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_1998/pdfs_pandi98/part_1_fiscal_picture_pandi98.pdf

2001 Budget Analysis:K-14 Education Priorities Proposition 98

The state, tho ugh, would realize annual savings for several years until that level was reached. Disadvantaged Schools Block Grant Figure 1 summarizes the various changes we recommend in this chapter in Proposition 98 appropriations for the budget year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2001/education/ed_02_cc_priorities_anl01.htm

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Teacher Quality

Indeed, by the end of the 2005-06 school year, federal law is requiring all teachers working in public schools to be "highly qualified " in all the core subjects they teach. Despite this requirement and the short period within which states have to comply, the Governor's revenue limit proposal essentially would dismantle the state's teacher quality efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/ed_05_teacherquality_anl04.htm