2003 Budget Analysis: P&I, Part 1

Realignment Plan Is Well Suited for Funding Mandates The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse schools and other local agencies if it "mandates " a new program or higher level of service.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/2003_pandi/pi_part_5b_realignment_anl03.html

1999 Initiative Analysis: The Majority Rule Act for Smaller

The magnitude of these costs on a statewide basis is unknown, but could easily be in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually after several years. There also would be an increase in local district costs to provide charter schools with appropriate facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1999/990252_INT.html

December 1997 Cal Update

December 1997 Cal Update December 1997 ,Legislative Analyst's Office Major Milestones: 25 Years of the State-Local Fiscal Relationship The past 25 years in California have seen significant changes in the fiscal relationship between state and local government.
https://lao.ca.gov/1997/cal_update/dec_97_calupdate.html

^[PDF] The Master Plan at 50: Great Than the Sum of Its Parts--Coordinating Higher Education in California

Both campuses were built in sparsely populated areas, far from the urban and suburban centers where projected growth of high school graduates was concentrated. Both are struggling to attract students several years after opening.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2010/edu/ed_coordination/ed_coordination_012810.pdf

^[PDF] 1949 Budget Analysis: MILITARY

The Oalifornia Oadet Oorps was created in 1911, with the principal purpose being the teaching of marksmanship to students in high schools with 40 or more boys, 14 years old or older. The first appropriation for the corps was $5,000 to buy rifles for practice.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/1949/17_military_1949.pdf

Initiative Analyses

Any funds not used for private school tuition and fees could be saved and used for postsecondary education expenses, up to a limit of $60,000 per student. The program initially would be limited to students from families below certain income thresholds, but would be open to all students by the end of the five-year implementation period (Amendment #1).
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiatives?page=5

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Introduction: Proposition 98

The measure, which was later modified by Proposition 111, establishes a minimum annual funding level for K –12 schools and California Community Colleges (CCC). (A small amount of annual Proposition 98 funding provides support for direct educational services provided by other agencies, such as the State Special Schools and the California Youth Authority.)
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08001.aspx

^[PDF] The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012

Of the monies deposited into the account, 89 percent would be provided to schools and 11 percent would be provided to community colleges. The EPA funds for schools would be distributed the same way as existing general purpose per-pupil funding, except that no school district is to receive less than $200 in EPA funds per pupil.
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2012/120208.pdf

Retirement benefits for state and local governmental employees in California (Amendment No. 1). [Ballot]

Nov 24, 2015 - Revenues from investment returns vary significantly year to year depending on market performance; however, pension boards adopt actuarial assumptio ns that assume average investment returns over an extended time horizon.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-076

Retirement benefits for state and local governmental employees in California (Amendment No.1). [Ballot]

Nov 24, 2015 - Revenues from investment returns vary significantly year to year depending on market performance; however, pension boards adopt actuarial assumptio ns that assume average investment returns over an extended time horizon.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2015-077