Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) was signed into law in July 2018, reauthorizing the federal Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. To receive funding, a state must submit a plan to the Secretary of Education that outlines the state ’s approach to CTE and confirms that the state complies with certain federal regulations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - In 2018 ‑19, the state provided $164  million for the state portion of school meals. This amount has grown to $1.8  billion in 2023 ‑24 (a 987  percent increase). Program costs have also consistently been higher than initially budgeted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - (The ELPAC was developed and adopted in 2018, before the state began expanding TK eligibility to younger four-year olds.) Since the ELPAC was not designed with younger TK students in mind, the major concern was that students who were developing language normally for their age could be misidentified as English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce 2018 ‑19 and 2021 ‑22 Supports establishing and expanding teacher and school counselor residency programs in special education, STEM, bilingual education, and kindergarten/transitional kindergarten.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

Education Overview [Publication Details]

May 31, 2018 - To be presented to: 2018-19 Budget Conference Committee
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3848

The 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Proposition 98 Budget Package

Jan 18, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Proposition 98 Budget Package The 2018-19 Budget Overview of the Governor ’s Proposition 98 Budget Package The Governor presented his budget package to the Legislature on January 10, 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3732

The 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Proposition 98 Budget Package [Publication Details]

Jan 18, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Proposition 98 Budget Package [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3732

The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook

Nov 15, 2017 - We examined the effect on the guarantee if General Fund revenue came in a few billion dollars above our outlook estimates in 2017 ‑ 18 o r 2018 ‑19 (or in both years). None of these scenarios resulted in a higher minimum guarantee in 2017 ‑ 18 o r 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3716

The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook [Publication Details]

Nov 15, 2017 - The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook [Publication Details] The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Outlook Format: HTML Description: Proposition 98 (1988) establishes a minimum annual funding requirement for schools and community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3716

The 2021-22 Budget: Public School Restrooms Feminine Hygiene Products Mandate

Mar 1, 2021 - The estimate uses claims data submitted to the State Controller for 2017 ‑18 (reflecting a half ‑year of costs) and 2018 ‑19. The data consisted of 169 r eimbursement claims (97  for 2017 ‑2018 and 72 for 2018 ‑201 9) s ubmitted by 115 school districts and COEs, representing a total of 1, 410 e ligible schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4392