The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Update (1/16/25): A set of tables detailing various solutions and proposals has been appended to the online version of this report. They are available using the HTML link above. On January 10, 2025, Governor Newsom’s administration presented its proposed state budget to the California Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951/3

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Separate from his proposals to pay down the CalSTRS unfunded liability, the Governor proposes providing $ 700  m illion over the next two years ($ 350  m illion per year) to provide school and community college districts immediate budget relief.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Mar 16, 2017 - Schools Required to Operate Transitional Kindergarten Same Length of Day as Kindergarten. Under state law, Transitional Kindergarten is the first year of a two ‑year Kindergarten program. If a school district runs Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten programs on the same site, the two programs at that site must be run for the same length of the day.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3618

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Feb 24, 2016 - If families instead made similar decisions to families currently in the AP program and relied more heavily on FCCHs and license –exempt care, converting SRR slots into vouchers would cost roughly $25  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3367

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Most notably, the Governor provides a combined $ 900  m illion for six programs aimed at improving school employee training, recruitment, and retention. The budget also provides $ 600  m illion for two new grant programs: (1) $ 300  m illion for grants to help low ‑performing schools and districts improve their performance and (2) $ 300  m illion for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - The Governor proposes to eliminate the requirement that families must be working or in school for their children to be eligible for full ‑day State Preschool. Under the Governor ’s proposal, all three ‑ and four ‑year olds who meet the income requirements would be eligible for the full ‑day program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Families receiving child care also have been affected, particularly due to school and child care closures that have required families to find new child care arrangements. State Has Taken Several Actions to Support Child Care Programs During the Pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care [Publication Details]

Apr 29, 2021 - Since March 2020, the federal government has passed three relief packages that assist K-12 schools and child care providers in their response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This post provides a brief summary of how the three federal relief packages affect K-12 education and child care and describes how the state has used these federal funds, as of April 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4419

Final EdBudget Tables (2015)

Oct 19, 2015 - Identify Three-Year Degree Pathways UC is to identify three-year degree pathways in 10 of its top 15 majors, with a goal of having 5 percent of students enrolled in these accelerated degree pathways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3299

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor’s Preschool Slot Estimate

May 6, 2019 - As noted above, this is because we estimate a larger share of the overall four-year old population is income eligible. Share of Children Served in Head Start. The administration assumes 25  percent of four-year olds in Head Start also participate in State Preschool.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4027