The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Sep 16, 2024 - The budget provides $5  million one-time funding for Save the Children to operate after school programs in rural school districts. In 2023 ‑24, Save the Children received $3  million one-time federal funding for this purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Funding Plan May Not Meet Principle of “Shared Responsibility”

Feb 2, 2016 - Reflects 4.5 percent return in 2014-15. Whether State Shares in Responsibility Depends On Future Investment Experience. As we described in our second post , the funding plan—as implemented—makes the state responsible for an estimate of what CalSTRS’ unfunded liabilities would be today if the state had made different decisions about teacher pensions in the past.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3337

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

Nov 10, 2025 - The budget provides $5  million one-time funding for the Save the Children organization to operate after school education and safety programs in rural school districts. The state provided non-Proposition  98 General Fund in 2023-24 ($3  million) and 2024-25 ($5  million) for this purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The latter reductions are primarily due to lower Proposition  64 revenues and the use of one ‑time federal carryover funds in 2025 ‑26 ( Figure  5 ). Figure 4
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2022-23 Budget: California College Guidance Initiative

Feb 22, 2022 - Of this funding, $4.5  million is proposed to cover the cost of operating the platform for existing districts, including covering the costs of fees previously paid by participating districts. The remaining $4.8  million would cover costs associated with new districts participating on the platform, including technology operations, maintenance, and development, as well as CCGI  personnel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4553

CalSTRS Funding: An Update

May 5, 2017 - Figure 5 Detail on Calculation of Responsibility for CalSTRS ’ Unfunded Liabilities 2 015 ‑16 (In Billions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3662

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Their research typically involved (1)  interviewing state and local officials, (2)  reviewing the state ’s experience with its governance model, (3)  examining theories of governance, (4)  studying governance in other states, (5)  analyzing the political and fiscal incentives of the main governance entities, and (6)  gathering public  feedback.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

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

Feb 4, 2026 - For example, the ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings (a measure of how expensive stocks are) is near historically high levels ( Figure  5 ). Investors are borrowing large sums to buy stocks, and households are more invested in the stock market than at any time in at least 70 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

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

Apr 30, 2018 - In 2017 ‑18, it carried forward $4.5  million in unspent funds. As a result of DOJ ’s staffing issues, the number of open teacher misconduct cases at DOJ continued to grow —to 260 open cases in 2015 ‑16, 291 open cases in 2016 ‑17, and 313 open cases in September 2017.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3817