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 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As a condition of receiving CCDF, the state must comply with a number of requirements, such as providing some matching funding as well as spending at least 12 percent of CCDF funds on quality improvement activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - Future Quality Incentive Metrics Under Development. After June 30, 2026, enrollment in the Provider Directory will no longer suffice to qualify for the quality incentive portion of rate models. Chapter   76 requires that quality measures must evolve to include individual ‑level outcome measures by the conclusion of the 2025 ‑26 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

Climate Change Impacts Across California - K-12 Education

Apr 5, 2022 - Additional modifications might include “hardening ” facilities to reduce their risk of catching fire in forested areas, adding air filtration systems to lessen smoke exposure, or elevating structures along the coast to accommodate occasional flooding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4586

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - This brief provides a short summary of the Governor’s proposed budget for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) before addressing four issues that warrant legislative oversight: (1) quality incentives as part of service provider rate reform, (2) the Master Plan for Developmental Services, (3) DDS’s ongoing information technology project, and (4) the phaseout of subminimum wage employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5008

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 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - This guidance will inform the Instructional Quality Commission and SBE on the degree to which new materials conform to the new ELA/ELD framework, incorporate media literacy, and include foundational skills a nd language development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

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 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Sep 26, 2024 - Requires DSS Provide Legislature a Draft of Quality Improvement Expenditures. As a condition of receiving federal child care funding, the state must spend a certain amount annually on activities that improve the quality of child care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4932

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Both CTEIG and K ‑12 SWP have similar goals of expanding and supporting high ‑quality CTE programs across the state. Each program provides one ‑time competitive grants, with similar allowable uses of funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021