The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Consider Trade-Offs of Setting Service Requirements for Multilingual Learners. As the Legislature considers actions it can take to better support multilingual learners in TK, it may want to weigh the trade-offs of having service requirements in law for students that have been identified as multilingual learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Considering Adding Legislative Appointees to the SBE. The Legislature could consider adding two legislative appointees to the SBE. These appointees could enable greater legislative oversight of the new governance system and ensure the SBE ’s policies are consistent with legislative intent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Though the number of students shifted from self‑ to state‑supported courses is smaller in 2024‑25 compared to 2023‑24 (745 FTE students shifted in summer 2024 compared to 4,705 FTE students shifted the previous summer), the effect is still not adding new students but adding new state costs from shifting students formerly in self‑supported courses into state‑supported ones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2019-20 Budget: Special Education Teaching Performance Assessment

Apr 30, 2019 - Special Education TPA Entails Other Potential Trade-Offs. Given the limited research, we contacted teachers and teacher preparation program administrators to learn more about the potential trade-offs of requiring a special education TPA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4022

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - We find the proposed training funds to be premature since the approved list of screening tools has not been finalized and funds are being added to the block grant earlier than needed under the traditional claims ‑based process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - The proposal effectively shifts that cost from this year to future budgets —helping address the current budget problem on a one ‑time basis, but adding to the large budget deficits the state is projecting over the next several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

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 2022-23 Budget: California College Guidance Initiative

Feb 22, 2022 - The college or university, in turn, can use the data to inform decisions about admissions and course placement. As of 2021 ‑22, 95 school districts participate in CCGI. CCGI Is Funded Through Mix of Proposition  98, Fee Revenue, and Philanthropy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4553

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - CDE in turn will submit a report to the Legislature and Governor by February 1, 2030. Funds Additional Support for Universal Meals Implementation. The budget includes $155  million one-time funding for grants intended to support school nutrition programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - The Governor ’s plan addresses these trade ‑offs by proposing a balance of new ongoing and one ‑time spending. This approach seems like a reasonable starting point for building the budget. Plan Builds a Budget Cushion That Would Help Protect Ongoing Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963