The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - Adding a sunset date would provide the Legislature the opportunity to reevaluate the fee structure and make modifications. Historically, the state has set a sunset date of January 1, five years after the account is reauthorized.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5013

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Since 2005, UC has added approximately 44,000  resident undergraduate slots. UC  Merced accounts for 17  percent of this growth. UC Merced added the greatest number of resident undergraduate students of any UC campus, with it growing by approximately 7,500 students since 2005.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2023-24 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2023 - The 2023-24 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4731

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - When the state has added new authorized positions, it has added associated funding. For example, in 2023‑24, the state augmented CSAC’s state operations budget $1.1 million for the additional positions, along with a few hundreds of thousands of dollars for other things (new high school toolkits and additional Cash for College efforts).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2022-23 Budget: Student Financial Aid

Feb 18, 2022 - Similar  to the accounts for newborns, SIB anticipates opening the accounts for low ‑income public school students before July 1, 2022, with an associated 3.5  million  students added to the CalKIDS program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4548

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - Of  the 257 beds, 252 were renovated existing beds and 5 were to be new added beds. Total Enrollment Estimated to Decline in 2024 ‑25. Figure  1 shows CLSF enrollment over the past 25 years. Since 2000, CLSF enrollment peaked in 2009 at 1,336 full ‑time equivalent (FTE) students, then fell notably from 2011 ‑12 to 2015 ‑16, before leveling off for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

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 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Effects on Segments Regular Cost Pressures Are Adding to Segments ’ Fiscal Challenges. CSU ’s and UC ’s fiscal issues are being made more challenging because they, like community colleges, continue to  face all of their typical cost pressures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2023-24 Budget: California State University

Feb 7, 2023 - This would enhance accountability by providing a clear goal against which CSU ’s actual enrollment level can be measured. In deciding upon a target, the Legislature could use CSU ’s planned enrollment level of 364,140 resident FTE students as a starting point.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4671