LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Alternative Budget Overview

As we discuss in a later piece in “Part V, ” our alternative budget includes a major realignment of responsibility for supervision of low –level criminal offenders released from state prison. Under our proposal, counties would receive slightly more resources than the state currently dedicates to this purpose ($495 million instead of $483 million).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/2008_pandi/pi_anl08005.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: LAO Revenue–Raising Proposals

The optimal state R &D credit rate, and the effects of the state credit on the total amount of R &D activity in the state, are unknown. In the case of those R &D projects that would have been undertaken even if the state did not offer its own credit on top of the federal credit, the state credit produces windfall
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/2008_pandi/pi_anl08006.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Alternatives to the Governor’s Budgetary Reforms

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Alternatives to the Governor’s Budgetary Reforms Summary The Governor proposes that a constitutional amendment be put before the state ’s voters related to the state ’s budgeting process.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/2008_pandi/pi_anl08008.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Restructuring Local Assistance for Public Safety

Other local assistance is provided through state sales tax revenue and through subvention programs administered by SCO. (In addition, other state agencies, such as the State Department of Education, provide local assistance relating to public safety issues, such as the School Safety Block Grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/crim_justice/cj_anl08002.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (1870)

In particular, in the VCP, some administrative expenditures and direct payments to crime victims are combined in one state operations budget item and the board does not internally track these expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/crim_justice/cj_anl08007.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Adult Corrections (5225)

In designing new funding formulas, the state should aim to make the reallocation of staffing be cost –neutral, so as to not result in additional costs to the state or fewer resources for the department.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/crim_justice/cj_anl08009.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Per–Pupil Funding

Comparing PPF Across States One of the most commonly cited sources of PPF is the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is a division of the United States Department of Education. The NCES calculates PPF for each state and publishes the comparisons.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08006.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Adult Education

From 2003 –04 through 2007 –08, for instance, state funding exceeded actual state population growth by a cumulative 4 percent. The cost to the state in 2007 –08 of this 4 percent excess growth on the adult education budget was $30 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08010.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: California State Teachers’ Retirement System (1920)

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: California State Teachers’ Retirement System (1920) California State Teachers’ Retirement System (1920) The California State Teachers ’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) administers pension and other benefits for about 800,000 current and former educators of school and community college districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08015.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Other Issues

The NAEP annually assesses a sample of 4th and 8th grade students in each state. While it is not perfect, NAEP represents an assessment of the relative progress of the state ’s students compared to students in other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08016.aspx