LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Criminal Justice Overview

The budget also provides $60  million for the full-year costs of salary increases that took effect in the current year, mostly for correctional officers. The Budget Funds Court Order Related to Inmate Health Care.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_01_ov_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Proposition 69-DNA Collection

In fiscal year 2003-04, the latest year for which data are available, the DNA lab processed nearly 66,000 DNA sa mples. Proposition  69 requires DOJ to store DNA profiles of convicted felons in a statewide DNA databank.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_02_cc_dna_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Department of Justice (0820)

The budget proposes total expenditures of approximately $688  million for support of the DOJ in the budget year. This amount is approximately $11  million, or about 1.6  percent, above estimated current-year expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_05_0820_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Board of Corrections (5430)

This is a decrease of approximately $109  million or 60  percent from the current year. General Fund expenditures are proposed to total approximately $30  million in the budget year, which is a decrease of $108  million or 79  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/crim_justice/cj_07_5430_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Education Overview

We also raise concerns abou t the current fiscal condition of school districts and the impact on districts of declining student enrollment. Higher Education Priorities. For UC and CSU, the Governor's budget proposal largely follows the compacts he developed with the segments in spring 2004.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_01_ov_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Proposition 98 Budget Priorities

The proposal also would extend from two years to ten years the amount of time teachers must perform satisfactorily before rece iving employment protections known as "tenure. " School Budget Reports. Require school districts to annually report to the public each school's revenues and expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_02_CC_Prop98_Priorities_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Governor's Vocational Education Reform

Perhaps because high school vocational program s have low returns, high school students see college as virtually the only road to success. Surveys show that 56  percent of California's tenth graders want to attend a four-year university and 22  percent plan on attending a two-year college after graduating from high school.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_03_CC_Governors_VocEd_Reform_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: School District Financial Condition

A fall in the number of elementary school age students in California is creating declining enrollment in many school districts. In 2003-04, elementary and unified districts reported that 13,800 fewer students were enrolled in grades K-6 than in the previous year.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_06_School_District_Financial_Condition_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Categorical Reform

Prior to Chapter  871, BTSA monies were allocated based on the number of participating first- and second-year teachers. Thus, it targeted funds to hard-to-staff schools with high teacher turnover as well as to growing schools with large numbers of first- and second-year teachers.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_07_Categorical_Reform_anl05.htm

LAO 2005 Budget Analysis: Special Education

Federal law requires school districts provide these services. By eliminating the state mandate on counties, our recommendation has the effect of returning these responsibilities to school districts. We also recommend the Legislature revise the proposed Budget Bill language and add the full $100  million earmarked for mental health services into the base special education funding formula.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2005/education/ed_08_Special_Education_anl05.htm