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 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As we discuss in The 2026‑27 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Budget , both our office and the administration project multiyear budget shortfalls beginning in 2027‑28, which will require the Legislature to make difficult spending decisions next year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

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

Nov 19, 2025 - This surplus remains small over the next few years, but increases in the final year when the guarantee grows more rapidly. This pattern shows how the available funding depends on state revenues. If revenues grow more slowly than our forecast assumes for the next few years, however, the guarantee likely could not even support existing  programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Making these changes would be challenging by next school year. In  addition, districts would need to notify families of the broader eligibility for the program. Districts commonly notify families of enrollment in the spring before the next school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Next, we explain how our estimates of the guarantee in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 differ from the state ’s previous estimates. Third, we estimate the guarantee over the 2025 ‑26 through 2028 ‑29 period under our economic forecast.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2018-19 Budget: Update on Backlog of Teacher Misconduct Cases

Apr 30, 2018 - If the Legislature were to take such an approach next year, it could allow DOJ on a case-by-case basis to seek an extension from the presiding judge but require DOJ to report any such exten sions requested and granted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3817

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Based on a 2021 ‑22 survey from the National Center for Education Statistics, 84  percent of public school teachers returned to work in the same school the next year, while 92  percent of public school teachers nationwide remained in the profession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook

Nov 14, 2018 - Looking forward over the next several years, school attendance is projected to continue decreasing and increasing in these same respective areas. Staffing Pressures Districts Have Been Adding Faculty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3897