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

Nov 14, 2025 - The remaining $45  million is to support the costs of administering monthly cost of care plus payments. Extends Reimbursement Flexibility Based on Maximum Certified Need for Voucher-Based Providers. The budget provides $88.6  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund to continue to pay voucher-based providers based on a child ’s maximum certified hours of care rather than on attendance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - After applying the COLA, the administration projects that providers in three additional counties would be funded based on the SRR, resulting in a total of 45  counties funded based on the SRR. LAO Comments COLA Policy Effectively Prioritizes Rate Increases for Lower ‑Cost Counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

Final EdBudget Tables (2015)

Oct 19, 2015 - Review Units Required for Majors UC has agreed to reduce the number of units required for a major to no more than 45 upper-division units “wherever possible ” in 75 percent of majors at each campus (except the Los Angeles campus because it already has undertaken such a review).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3299

COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care

May 14, 2020 - Upon receiving California ’s allocation, the Governor has 45 days to submit a more detailed plan to the federal government regarding how he intends to allocate the funds among education entities in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4231

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - This includes $263  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund intended to help child care providers construct or renovate facilities and $195  million ($150  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund and $45  million federal funds) to improve and expand child care and preschool workforce training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - The flexible statewide ESSER funding was used to provide $112  million for higher reimbursement rates for some school meals, $45  million for a competitive grant to support implementation of the community schools model, $6  million for teacher professional development to address student learning loss, and $2  million for the California Department of Education (CDE) to administer the funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - As Figure  9 shows, the combined cost of CalWORKs Stages  2 and  3 has grown from $ 714  m illion in 2016 ‑ 17 t o more than $ 1  b illion in 2018 ‑ 19 —an increase of 45  p ercent across the period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956