Overview of Special Education in California

The El Dorado County charter –only SELPA grew from 23 charter school members in 2008 –09 to 138 charter school members in 2011 –12. These schools are located across the state, not just in El Dorado County.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2013/edu/special-ed-primer/special-ed-primer-010313.aspx

Rethinking PARIS Data Match: Connecting Veterans on Medi-Cal to Federal Benefits

Post Pilot, PARIS Veterans Continues in 11 Counties. Currently, DHCS receives Veterans match file results for Medi –Cal beneficiaries in 11 counties, and refers a subset of the hits for CVSO outreach in these counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2013/hlth/PARIS/PARIS-080613.aspx

Why Have Sales Taxes Grown Slower Than the Economy?

The rest (about $23 billion) was distributed to counties, cities, and some special districts and used for a variety of purposes. The statewide base sales tax rate is 7.5 percent. With voter approval, however, local governments may increase (by up to 2.5 percentage points) the local tax rate to generate additional local sales tax revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2013/tax/Sales-tax/Sales-tax-080513.aspx

The 2014-15 Budget: Capital Outlay Support Program Review

State law allocates 75 percent of STIP funds to counties by formula for projects selected by the counties. Counties can choose to complete support work on STIP projects by using Caltrans COS program staff, their own staff, or private consultants.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/capital-outlay/capital-outlay-support-program-051414.aspx

The 2014-15 Budget: Governor's Criminal Justice Proposals

Following realignment, however, those offenders released from prison —whether supervised by the state or counties —must generally serve their revocation term in county jail. Impact of Realignment on County Jail Populations.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/criminal-justice/criminal-justice-021914.aspx

The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing

Background Local Government Finance Property Taxes Are Allocated to Local Governments. Californians pay around $50 billion in property taxes annually. County auditors distribute these revenues to local governments —schools , community colleges, counties, cities, and special districts —pursuant to state law.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/local-infrastructure-financing/infrastructure-031014.aspx

The 2014-15 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Though deferral paydowns would benefit most districts, those districts that rely more heavily on state funding (compared to local property tax funding) would benefit most from these payments. Mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/prop98/proposition-98-budget-021414.aspx

The 2014-15 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

In particular, the review identified areas around the Lake Tahoe basin, Idyllwild (Riverside County), and Big Bear Lake (San Bernardino County) as areas in which USFS could no longer offer adequate protection.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/resources/resources-environmental-protection-022114.aspx

The 2014-15 Budget: Transportation Proposals

Some of the allied agencies that are provided assistance include local police departments, county sheriffs, state departments (such as the Department of Water Resources and Department of Fish and Wildlife), and federal departments (such as the Department of Homeland Security).
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/budget/transportation/transportation-030614.aspx

Restructuring California’s Child Care and Development System

Despite this variation among counties, almost all counties in California serve a relatively small proportion of children, with 54 counties serving less than 20 percent of low –income children and 26 counties serving less than 10 percent of low –income children.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2014/education/child-care/restructuring-child-care-system-040414.aspx