Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - Grant recipients tend to use WIOA Title II funds primarily to hire additional teachers to expand their adult education course offerings and additional staff to expand their student support services. About half of adult schools and one in four community college districts receive WIOA Title  II  funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652

The 2022-23 Budget: CCC Chancellor's Office Staffing

Mar 29, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget proposes two other positions —a Program Assistant II and a Specialist —in the Educational Services and Support Division that would work on ethnic studies curriculum and competency ‑based education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4579

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Sep 11, 2024 - The budget also adds $1.5  million in one-time federal reimbursements from the California Department of Education (consisting of $1  million in Title II, Part A funds and $500,000 in Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funds) for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4926

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 19, 2023 - The largest ongoing General Fund increase is $462,000 for the Witkin State Law Library to support a new Senior Librarian, two Librarians, and a Library Technical Assistant II. The additional staff largely are intended to help address an increase in research workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4809

The 2022-23 Budget: California State Library

Feb 18, 2022 - As Figure  4 shows, the State Library ’s rent for the Library and Courts II building has notably increased in recent years. According to the State Library, the cost increase is due to two factors, described below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4549

The 2018-19 Budget: Adult Education Analysis

Feb 15, 2018 - These other fund sources include federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title II funds, state funding for jail education, and California State Library literacy funds. State law encourages but does not require providers receiving these pots of funds to coordinate their adult education course offerings with their regional consortia.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3752

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - In our November Fiscal Outlook , we found the state has sufficient reserves to cover operating deficits in the event of a typical post‑World War II recession. This finding was based on two important assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Improving Workforce Education and Training Data in California

Aug 18, 2016 - Adult Education and Family Literacy Program Ongoing federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title II funding allocated by CDE to numerous adult education providers, including adult schools, community colleges, libraries, and community –based organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3494

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