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

Nov 10, 2025 - Of the total funding, $200  million will be used to extend eligibility to elementary schools that have not previously received program funding and have a student body that is at least 94  percent EL/LI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Planning Support ($500   Million). In 2021 ‑22, the state provided $200  million Proposition  98 General Fund to all local education agencies (LEAs) —districts, charter schools, and county offices of education —that operate kindergarten programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Proposition 98)

Jun 19, 2015 - Adult Education Package Provides $500 Million for Adult Education Consortia. The CCC budget includes $500 million for the Adult Education Block Grant. This funding follows a two-year planning period in which school districts, community college districts, and other adult education providers established 70 consortia to coordinate services regionally.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3273

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

Nov 19, 2025 - We estimate that enrollment ‑related adjustments will increase community college costs by more than $200  million in 2026 ‑27, reducing the funding available for other activities. School attendance, by contrast, is expected to decline in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

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 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - As local governments reach these new goals, an additional $ 500  m illion would be available to cities and counties for general purposes. Middle ‑Income Housing Loans. The Governor ’s budget proposes $ 500  m illion General Fund to expand the California Housing Finance Agency ’s (CalHFA ’s) Mixed ‑Income Loan Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, the state provided $200  million for a competitive grant program aimed at increasing programs that provide high school students with access to college level courses. Of this amount, $100  million was available for grants of up to $250,000 to plan and start up middle and early college high schools on K ‑12 school sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

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

Feb 16, 2023 - (Schools with less than 500  students are automatically exempt from this staffing requirement.) The remaining funding can be used for training, supplies and materials, and for arts educational partnership programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4688

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Specifically, the budget proposes $500  million for tax credits to builders of rental housing affordable to low ‑income households, $200  million for mixed ‑income housing, $200  million to preserve affordable housing units, and $100  million to preserve affordable mobile  homes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

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