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

Nov 14, 2025 - Funds One-Time Administrative Costs. The budget provides $115  million one-time non-Proposition  98 General Fund to support administrative costs for Alternative Payment agencies. Of this total, $70  million is to cover the costs of implementing aspects of the agreement between the state and CCPU, such as collecting provider dues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Essentially, the Governor ’s budget assumes that the administration is able to achieve about one ‑half of the General Fund state operations savings assumed in the 2024 ‑25 budget plan. Budget Position Largely Similar to Our Estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - (In 2024 ‑25, the $138  million ongoing decrease is offset by a $78  million one-time increase.) Figure 3 Comparing the Governor ’s Budget and LAO Recommendation Proposition 98 (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - One goal of the change was to address concerns that —because the SRR is not adjusted by region —direct contract providers in many high ‑cost counties received lower rates than voucher ‑based providers funded through the RMR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - The package also includes $738  million one-time funds for child care programs. Figure 4 2022 ‑23 Changes in Child Care Spending (In Millions) Non ‑Proposition 98 General Fund Federal
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

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

Nov 17, 2023 - The spending plan delays the planned child care slot increases by one year, resulting in $134  million General Fund savings in 2023 ‑24. The administration intends to resume adding new slots in 2024 ‑25, reaching the overall 200,000  new slots goal by 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Overall, there may be as much as roughly $800  million in one ‑time budget savings in the current year, with some additional savings in 2023 ‑24 likely. We will continue to refine our estimate of one ‑time savings as we receive more information from DSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

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

Jan 13, 2023 - In addition, the Governor ’s budget includes $4.3  billion in cost shifts, which represent nearly one ‑quarter of the total. Notably, the Governor ’s budget does not propose using any reserves to address the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - Some One ‑Time Support Seems Reasonable to Support Districts in Meeting Expansion Requirements. If the Legislature is interested in expanding TK, providing one ‑time funds will likely help some districts to expand their TK programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350