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

Nov 10, 2025 - (The previous round of grants restricted funding to schools with EL/LI of at least 95  percent.) The grant size is based on a school ’s TK-3 enrollment, with a minimum grant of $450,000. The remaining $15  million will be awarded to a COE to provide training to literacy coaches throughout the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The state provided a total of $477  million for the program (across 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24) for all schools with K ‑3 enrollment and an EL/LI share of 95  percent or higher. Schools received a minimum grant of $450,000, with additional funding distributed proportionally based on K ‑3 enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Feb 16, 2023 - Specifically, eligibility is for elementary schools that have not previously received LCRS program funding and have a student body where at least 95  percent of students are low ‑income or English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4688

Update on School District Budgets

Nov 16, 2020 - To have an earlier sense of district spending for 2019 ‑20 and their 2020 ‑21 outlook, we collected 2020 ‑21 budget documents from a representative sample of 95 school districts and made various calculations to estimate the statewide trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4301

The 2022-23 Budget: K-12 Early Literacy Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - The funding would be provided to local education agencies (LEAs) —school districts, charter schools, and COEs —for each school site where at least 95  percent of students in Transitional Kindergarten through grade 6 are English learners or low income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4539

The 2022-23 Budget: California College Guidance Initiative

Feb 22, 2022 - As of 2021 ‑22, 95 school districts participate in CCGI. CCGI Is Funded Through Mix of Proposition  98, Fee Revenue, and Philanthropy. In 2018 ‑19, the state provided CCGI $3.5  million ongoing Proposition  98 for operational costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4553

A Historical Review of Proposition 98

Jan 18, 2017 - Instead, the parties to the lawsuit agreed that they would use the administration ’s calculation for 1994 –95 but not consider it precedent for any future litigation involving Proposition  98. Debate Over Creation of Maintenance Factor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3526

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - Overall, we estimate 95  percent are devoted to one ‑time or temporary purposes and 5  percent are ongoing. Specifically, the Governor proposes  allocating: $32   Billion to One ‑Time or Temporary Spending on Programmatic Expansions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - These  funds will be used to extend eligibility to elementary schools that have not previously received LCRS program funding and have a student body where at least 95  percent of students are low-income or English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - Whereas school attendance rates averaged about 95  percent of enrollment prior to the pandemic, they dropped to around 90  percent in 2021 ‑22. We think much of this drop reflects the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID ‑19 in the middle of the 2021 ‑22 school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648