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: 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 2019-20 Budget: Creating an Integrated Education Data System

May 6, 2019 - The proposed trailer bill language does not require the project to go through any part of CDT ’s review or approval process. Assessment In this section, we provide our assessment of the Governor ’s proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4026

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 2023-24 Budget: Equity Multiplier and Accountability Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - For example, the Legislature could explore moving detailed LCAP expenditure data to an interactive online portal that would allow users to determine the level of detail they want to review. The Legislature could also require added features to the California School Dashboard that allow users to see outcome data by school or subgroup —data that is commonly listed
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4700

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 2018-19 Budget: Update on Backlog of Teacher Misconduct Cases

Apr 30, 2018 - Recognizing the increase in DOJ teacher misconduct-related workload, the state increased the credential application fee from $70 to $100 in 2015 ‑16 —expecting to generate $4.1  million in additional fee revenue that could support DOJ ’s added workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3817

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates

Feb 2, 2016 - A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan Recent Policy Change Increases District Rates This post is the seventh in a series looking at the implementation of the CalSTRS funding plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3338

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 2019-20 Budget: Special Education Teaching Performance Assessment

Apr 30, 2019 - At the request of the Legislature, CTC convened a workgroup to broadly review the state ’s teacher credential requirements. One component of the review evaluated whether assessment practices prepared teachers to enter the classroom.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4022