The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - Current law requires families deemed eligible for subsidized child care to receive those services for at least 24 months before having their eligibility recertified. The budget modifies this requirement so that when families already receiving child care services add a child to the family size and request services for the child, eligibility is not recertified until the new chil d has received at least 12 months of services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - As part of the 2023 collectively bargained early education and parity agreement, the state did not apply the COLAs for 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25. Instead, the amount that would have been required to fund the 2023 ‑24 COLA over the next two years was used to fund the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - The requirement was initially set to increase to 7.5  percent in 2023 ‑24 and 10  percent in 2024 ‑25 and future years. The 2023 ‑24 budget package delayed these requirements for two years and redirected the associated funding increases in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 to the collective bargaining set-aside.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - As a result of recent declines in Proposition 64 revenue levels, the spending plan reduces Proposition 64 funding levels for the GCC program by $46 million in 2023‑24. We understand that the administration intends to backfill the $46 million GCC reduction in 2023‑24 with Proposition 64 carryover funds from prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Since 2023 ‑24, the Legislature has addressed a cumulative total of $82  billion in budget problems, but even including the withdrawal for 2025 ‑26, has only used about half of the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - In practice, this means TK classrooms have 24 students or fewer, with one credentialed teacher and one instructional aide. State law also specifies that ratios would be reduced to one adult for every ten students starting in 2023 ‑24, contingent on additional funding being  provided.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - High Risk of 2023‑24 Proposition 64 Revenues Coming in Lower Than Governor’s Budget Assumption. As previously mentioned, the Governor’s budget assumes that SCO transfers $95.7 million from the General Fund to Proposition 64 programs in 2023‑24 and maintains Proposition 64 funding levels for child care flat in 2023‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Under these estimates and assumptions, the state would end 2023 ‑24 with $3.8  billion in the SFEU. Figure 4
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget 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/Report/4662/2

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget 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/Report/4662/1