The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges [Publication Details]

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges [Publication Details] The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges Format: HTML Description: We forecast that increases to the Proposition 98 guarantee in 2024-25 and 2025-26, coupled with a preexisting payment obligation, require the state to provide nearly $7.4 billion in one-time funds for schools and community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5093

The 2022-23 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 17, 2021 - For 2021 ‑22, our outlook assumes average daily attendance will be down about 170,000 students (3 percent) relative to the pre ‑pandemic level of 5,897,000. Over the following four years, our outlook accounts for three trends affecting attendance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4473

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - Although our outlook treats the cost of enrollment changes as a baseline adjustment, the Legislature has discretion over how much growth to fund each year. June Budget Covered Ongoing Program Costs With One ‑Time Funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - The Education Budget in Context Tighter Outlook Follows Two Years of Extraordinary Growth. Although our outlook estimates a drop in the guarantee in 2022 ‑23 and slow growth in 2023 ‑24, these changes build upon two previous years of historic growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Finally, we compare the funding available under the guarantee with the cost of existing education programs and identify some issues for the Legislature to consider in the coming year. ( The2025‑26 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook contains our outlook for the overall state budget.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook

Nov 15, 2017 - Key Economic and Revenue Assumptions Near ‑Term Outlook Assumes Continued Economic Expansion. Our outlook through 2018 ‑ 19  i s based on a September 2017  c onsensus forecast of the U.S. economy prepared by Moody ’s Analytics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3716

The 2021-22 Budget: The Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 18, 2020 - Finally, we identify the amount of funding that would be available for new commitments in the upcoming year and describe some issues for the Legislature to consider as it prepares to allocate this funding. ( The 2021‑22 Budget: California’s Fiscal Outlook contains an abbreviated version of our Proposition 98 outlook, along with the outlook for other major programs in the state budget.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4298

The 2015-16 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details]

Nov 19, 2014 - The 2015-16 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook [Publication Details] Infographic Description: The 20th annual edition of the LAO's Fiscal Outlook—a look at possible state revenue and spending trends over the next five years—reflects anticipated progress in building budget reserves under the recently approved Proposition 2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3152

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

Feb 4, 2026 - Another option is to provide advance payments to districts toward their 2027 ‑28 funding allotments, consistent with an approach we outlined in our November 2025 report, The 2026‑27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Comparison to LAO November Outlook. In  our Fiscal Outlook released in November 2022, we anticipated the state would face a $24 billion budget problem, somewhat higher than the $18 billion budget problem we estimate the Governor addressed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662