The 2021-22 Budget: School Mental Health

Feb 12, 2021 - Assessment State Lacks Coordinated Strategy for Children ’s Mental Health. Given growing concerns over student mental health, providing additional state funding to increase school ‑based mental health services appears warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4368

The 2021-22 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Feb 4, 2021 - The 2021-22 Budget: Special Education Proposals Special Education Preschool Background State Provides Most Special Education Funding Based on Overall K ‑12 Student Attendance. The state allocates most special education funding through a base rate formula commonly called A B  602 (after its enacting legislation).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4345

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - (The state generally does not publish statewide or district ‑level data for the interdistrict permit system. Our analysis relies upon a special data extraction prepared by the California Department of Education.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329

The 2021-22 Budget: Extended Learning and Academic Support

Jan 29, 2021 - These declines suggests that some students who would typically be enrolled in school are currently receiving no formal instruction. 2020 ‑21 Budget Package Included $6.8  Billion in State and Federal Funding to Address Learning Loss and Effects of COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4326

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - We recommend the Legislature begin to consider how the state might address the budget ’s ongoing problem. For example, using some of the windfall to make supplemental pension payments would reduce the multiyear structural deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2021-22 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2020 - However, the state also faces an operating deficit beginning in 2021-22 and throughout the outlook period, growing to $17 billion by 2024-25. Our analysis also finds it is quite unlikely for revenues to grow fast enough for the budget to break even and erase the operating deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4297

The 2021-22 Budget: The Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2020 - State budgeting for schools and the California Community Colleges is governed largely by Proposition 98. The measure establishes a minimum funding requirement for K‑14 education commonly known as the minimum guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4298

The 2021-22 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 18, 2020 - …But State Also Faces an Operating Deficit Beginning in 2021 ‑22. Under our main forecast, General Fund revenues from the state ’s three largest sources would grow at an average annual rate of less than 1  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4297

The 2021-22 Budget: The Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 18, 2020 - Potential uses for this one ‑time funding include addressing student learning loss, paying down future pension costs, and building reserves. Introduction Report Provides Our Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4298

Update on School District Budgets [Publication Details]

Nov 16, 2020 - This post provides an update on the fiscal condition of California’s school districts as the state begins the process for developing its 2021-22 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4301