The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - CCC faculty receive a certain number of flex days so they can take time outside of teaching to pursue professional development activities, including developing new course designs, tools, and materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs over the past 18 months. Similarly, the number of Californians who are unemployed is 25  percent higher than during the strong labor markets of 2019 and 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

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

Jan 13, 2025 - These gains are not tied to improvements in the state ’s broader economy, which has been lackluster, with elevated unemployment, a stagnant job market outside of government and healthcare, and sluggish consumer spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - Because the Chancellor ’s Office is considered an independent agency outside of CDT ’s authority, its projects are not required to go through the PAL process. The Common ERP project has not undergone a comparable planning process, and the documentation currently available on this project is not equivalent to what the Legislature typically receives for other state IT  projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 19, 2023 - Most notably, it makes awards of up to $10,000 available to in-state students enrolled in certain online teacher preparation programs based outside California, with spending on these awards capped at 8  percent of total program funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4809

The 2021-22 Budget: UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Feb 26, 2021 - Staff also notes plans to identify further operational efficiencies and secure additional outside fund sources (such as philanthropy and federal and state grants). Any ANR deficit in 2020 ‑21 will be funded out of UCOP ’s reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4391

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Education

Oct 17, 2019 - Outside of CSU ’s main appropriation item, the budget provides $7  million ongoing to the Department of Social Services for contracts with external groups to provide legal services to undocumented and immigrant students and employees at CSU campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4096

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Even those confined to life sentences shared that a CCC education had been beneficial in various ways, including by allowing them to serve as mentors to younger incarcerated persons and inspiring family members on the outside to go to college.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

An Analysis of the University of California’s Agricultural and Natural Resource Programs

Jan 6, 2022 - Faculty within these colleges also conduct other research outside of NIFA ‑approved projects. This other research is supported by various fund sources, including state General Fund and competitive grants and contracts from other federal and state agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4490