The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 13, 2025 - This brief examines the estimates of the Proposition 98 guarantee in the Governor’s budget and assesses the overall structure of the Governor’s plan for K-12 funding. It also examines a few of the larger spending proposals and the proposal to delay a $1.6 billion settle-up payment. Update (2/21/25): This brief has been updated to reflect our office’s estimate of the K-12 COLA (2.26 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4963

^[PDF] The 2023-24 Budget: Equity Multiplier and Accountability Proposals

Beginning in 2024-25, the state would apply the same annual cost-of-living adjustment provided to other K-12 education programs. Trailer bill language specifies equity multiplier funding must be used to supplement, not supplant, the funding already provided to eligible school sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4700/Equity-Multiplier-Accountability-022323.pdf

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool [Publication Details]

Apr 16, 2024 - The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4894

Comparing LAO and May Revision Estimates of the Proposition 98 Guarantee [EdBudget]

May 25, 2021 - Comparing LAO and May Revision Estimates of the Proposition 98 Guarantee [EdBudget]     a The May Revision proposes to adjust the minimum guarantee upward ("rebench") for the expansion of transitional kindergarten to all four-year old children by 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/514

^[PDF] The 2022-23 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Specifically, CalSTRS actuaries project that the 2020-21 investment return experience will fully eliminate the state’s share of unfunded liabilities (currently around $31.5 billion) in a few years. Consequently, actuaries now project that the state’s contribution rate could phase down over the next few fiscal years, reaching around 2 percent beginning in 2024-25.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2021/4472/fiscal-outlook-111721.pdf

Financial Aid Award Coverage [EdBudget]

Aug 31, 2023 - Available for up to two calendar years. UC Grant Provides tuition and nontuition coverage for UC students. Aid is applied after Cal Grants and federal aid. Available for up to six years of full-time study (or its equivalent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/741

^[PDF] Supplemental Report of the 2023-24 Budget Act

(ii) For the 2024-25 fiscal year only, the estimated cost of each 1 percent increase in CCT reimbursement rates. If feasible, DHCS may factor the savings to the Medi-Cal program resulting from a CCT rate increase into its estimate to arrive at a net cost of each 1 percent increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2023/4803/supplemental-report-2023.pdf

The 2020-21 Budget: Medical Education Analysis

Feb 20, 2020 - Last Year, Legislature Expressed Intent to Approve a Future UC Merced Medical Facility. In addition to approving a UC Riverside medical school project, the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget authorized UC to pursue a new medical school project at or near the Merced campus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4166

LAO Publications

We project university enrollment over the next eight years based on existing state policy and growth in the state's pu blic high school graduates. In 2024-25, we project UC will enroll 11,000 more resident students (5 percent) than in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications?page=23&year=0&publicationType=0

LAO Publications

We project university enrollment over the next eight years based on existing state policy and growth in the state's pu blic high school graduates. In 2024-25, we project UC will enroll 11,000 more resident students (5 percent) than in 2016-17.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications?page=23&year=0&publicationType=0