Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - As part of the state ’s accountability system, districts report various student outcomes, referred to as statewide indicators, which are then displayed on a public website known as the school dashboard.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - Displaying total COE revenues and expenditures —including funding for district support and funding that is passed through to districts —makes it more challenging to assess spending specifically related to juvenile court and county community schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

An Overview of Internet in Schools

Jan 7, 2015 - It describes five key aspects of schools ’ Internet connections — (1) physical infrastructure , (2) connection speeds , (3) Internet service providers , (4) devices used to display Internet content , and (5) networking equipment .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3893

Funding for Major Internet-Related Programs Since 2000

Feb 17, 2015 - As displayed in the first part of Figure 1, the state and federal governments have created about a dozen programs over the last 14 years that provide funding to schools to support Internet activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3891

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: State’s Future Responsibility for CalSTRS Uncertain

Feb 2, 2016 - Figure 1 displays CalSTRS ’ projections of the state and district shares of unfunded liabilities under a sample of simulations reflecting average investment returns of between 5.6 percent and 10.9 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3336

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The Provider Directory is an online portal that will store and display information about service providers statewide. DDS required providers to complete a data collection survey by October 4, 2024 and then validate the submitted data in the Provider Directory in order to satisfy this performance metric.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposition 98 Overview and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 7, 2023 - For consistency with the displays in the Governor ’s budget, we exclude this funding from our Proposition  98 spending totals in 2023 ‑24. Proposition  28 (2022) Establishes New Program to Fund Arts Education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4670

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - State Displays Chronic Absenteeism Data on the California School Dashboard. The state publicly displays outcomes on several performance measures on a website known as the California School Dashboard.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - The Surplus Figure  3 displays the major spending decisions that the Governor made in allocating state discretionary funds (including proposals carried forward from January). It includes: (1)  the $34  billion in spending choices using the overall General Fund surplus (this figure excludes reserve deposits, tax refunds, and debt payments, which are shown instead in Figure   4) and (2)  the $33  billion surplus within the school and community college budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

Volatility of the Personal Income Tax Base

Feb 8, 2017 - (Figure  4 displays the same data graphically.) As shown, $1.15  billion of the state ’s $2.2  billion in BEA personal income is included in the PIT tax base. In addition, around $240  billion of additional income —from capital gains, as well as distributions from pensions and other retirement accounts —is taxed by California, but not counted in the BEA personal income measure for 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3548