^[PDF] Abusive Tax Shelters: Impact of Recent California Legislation

About 150 of those taxpayers and an additional 25 taxpayers protesting or appealing their cases participated in the VCI. Altogether, the VCI resulted in accelerating the resolution of these 175 cases for a total of $531 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/abusive_tax_shelters/abusive_tax_shelters_012706.pdf

^[PDF] Cal Facts 2006: State Budget

The current vacancy rate is about 13 percent.  In the last 30 years, state employment has ranged from a high of 9.9 employees per 1,000 population in 1977-78 to a low of 8.4 employees during the 1990s.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/cal_facts/calfacts_budget_2006.pdf

^[PDF] Cal Facts 2006: Program Trends

Relative to the state’s busiest ports, these other ports handle only a small share of container‑goods (up to 120,000 combined container units per year). 1
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/cal_facts/calfacts_program_trends_2006.pdf

Strategies for Improving Child Support Collections In California

Our review of the preliminary data for FFY 2005 suggests that California has continued its recent trend of slight year-over-year improvement on federal collection measures, but is likely to remain w ell below national averages.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/child_support/child_support_050306.htm

Fiscal Effect on California: Pending Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

This measure would assess an annual fee on California equal to $25 for most nonassistance child support cases. This fee would be deducted from California’s federal funds for progr am administration regardless of whether California elects to collect this fee from the affected nonassistance families.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/deficit_reduction/deficit_reduction_012006.html

The Progress of English Learner Students: Update 2002-2004

Unlike other state K-12 tests, student-level data on CELDT contains both the current year and the previous year’s score. By comparing each student’s scores for the two years, we measured the growth in English proficiency during th e 2001-02 school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/eng_lrnr_updt/eng_lrnr_updt_012606.htm

Funding Enrollment Growth at UC and CSU

Determining the amount of additional enrollment to fund each year can be difficult. Unlike enrollment in compulsory programs such as elementary and secondary schools, which corresp onds almost exclusively with changes in the school-age population, enrollment in higher education responds to a variety of factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/enrollment/UC-CSU_enrollment_032806.htm

^[PDF] Funding Enrollment Growth at UC and CSU

Funding Enrollment Growth at UC and CSU E l i z a b E t h G . h i l l • l E G i s l a t i v E a n a l y s t LAO 65 YEARS OF SERVICE Funding Enrollment Growth at UC and CSU year-to-year changes in the state’s higher education costs are greatly influenced by changes in student enrollment levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/enrollment/UC-CSU_enrollment_032806.pdf

^[PDF] Overview of the 2006-07 May Revision

This is because the May Revision includes a proposed settlement to a court case involving Proposition 98 school funding. Under this agreement, the state would provide an additional $2.9 billion in school funding over a seven- year period.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/may_revise/may_revise_051506.pdf

Improving Services for Migrant Students

Large Carryover Balance Is Largely Due to Timing Issues From Previous Years. The accumulation of MEP carryover funds is primarily due to a fiscal calendar change that occurred in 2003. The change meant MEP centers received a full 12-month grant appropriation in 2002-03 but had only ten months to expend the funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/migrant_ed/migrant_education_021506.htm