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

Feb 4, 2026 - If the revenue estimates meet the Governor ’s projections, the state will owe schools $5.6  billion in payments for which no funding is currently set aside. 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 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - New Requirements Added in 2024 ‑25 Following a Legal Settlement. In late 2020, the families of several students living in Oakland and Los Angeles filed a lawsuit alleging the state had failed to ensure that schools provided adequate instruction during the pandemic ( Cayla  J.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

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

Feb 15, 2024 - Provisional language added as part of the 2022 ‑23 budget package requires the administration provide additional funds for school nutrition programs if CDE projects a shortfall. Prior to this provisional language, a shortfall would result in meal rates being prorated, unless the Legislature provided an additional augmentation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

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

Nov 19, 2025 - When the state faced significant revenue drops in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24, it used several tools to sustain ongoing school and community college programs. Most  notably, it withdrew $9.5  billion from the Proposition  98 Reserve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2022-23 Budget: California College Guidance Initiative

Feb 22, 2022 - The proposed augmentation brings total ongoing CCGI funding to $16.6  million, with 294 districts that still need to be added to the platform. CCGI initially estimated the cost of fully scaling operations between $18  million and $20  million, but given the large number of districts that have yet to be added to the platform, we remain uncertain about the long ‑term costs for fully scaling CCGI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4553

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Outside of government and health care, the state has added no jobs over the past 18 months. Similarly, the number of Californians who are unemployed is 25  percent higher than during the strong labor markets of 2019 and 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The latter reductions are primarily due to lower Proposition  64 revenues and the use of one ‑time federal carryover funds in 2025 ‑26 ( Figure  5 ). Figure 4
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2023-24 Budget: One-Time K-12 Spending Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - Compared with the estimate included in the June 2022 budget plan, the administration revises its estimate of the minimum guarantee up $178   million in 2021 ‑22, primarily due to local property tax revenue exceeding previous estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4688

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - From 2022 ‑23 through 2024 ‑25, the state appropriation remained at $4  billion annually, while the Tier 1 rate and overall Tier 1 TK ‑6 attendance increased. As a result, funding available for Tier 2 rates decreased.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2022-23 Budget: Local Control Funding Formula

Jan 28, 2022 - These two adjustments combined result in an additional $2.1  billion in ongoing LCFF costs in  2022 ‑23. Proposes Adding Three ‑Year Rolling Average to School District Attendance Calculations. The Governor proposes to create an additional adjustment for school districts with declining attendance, beginning in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4505