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

Jan 18, 2018 - Specifically, rather than a student receiving $500 per grant if ta king 12-to-14 units per term and $2,000 per grant if taking 15 or more units, the new program would provide increasingly higher grant amounts for each unit taken from 12 to 15 units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3732

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the May Revision Education Proposals

May 15, 2017 - To date, the state has provided this supplemental appropriation six times, with the amount ranging from $68  million (in 1990 ‑91) to $1.4  billion (in 2001 ‑02). It has notwithstood the otherwise required appropriation once (in 1993 ‑94).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3670

The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - This program was funded with $15 million federal funding in 2020 ‑21 and $500 million one ‑time General Fund in 2021 ‑22 $515 2018 ‑19 and 2021 ‑22 Supports establishing and expanding teacher residency programs in special education, STEM, and bilingual education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556

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

Nov 10, 2025 - The June 2023 budget reduced funding for the Zero-Emission School Bus and Infrastructure Program but expressed the Legislature ’s intent to provide additional funding in the future, including a $500  million appropriation in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

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

Feb 4, 2026 - The S &P 500, for example, has risen about 40  percent over the last two years. Several signs, however, suggest that the stock market has become overvalued. For example, the ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings (a measure of how expensive stocks are) is near historically high levels ( Figure  5 ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - This would increase total funding for the TK add ‑on by $746  million, for a total add ‑on cost of $1.5  billion (this includes $206  million described above and $500  million included in the 2024 ‑25 budget).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - For kitchen infrastructure funding, most LEAs requested funding to purchase cooking equipment and make associated facility upgrades (91  percent), followed by service equipment (88  percent) —such as mobile carts —and refrigeration and storage (88  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - (The state has provided almost $500  million for this purpose in recent years. Schools that received previous grants would be ineligible for additional funds.) The budget also includes $15  million for one or more county offices of education to provide training to develop literacy coaches and reading specialists. $379   Million for LREBG.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2021-22 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 19, 2021 - Department of Education, California has identified shortages of special education, science, and math teachers nearly every year since 1990 ‑91. Special education teachers tend to have higher rates of turnover due to several factors, such as the increased risk of lawsuits and considerable reporting requirements to comply with federal special education law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4381

A Historical Review of Proposition 98

Jan 18, 2017 - Later, as part of the 2000 –01 May Revision, the minimum guarantees for these three years were increased again (by more than $500  million) as a result of new census data reflecting even less population growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3526