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

Nov 19, 2025 - Assuming the COLA rate remains at 2.51  percent, the associated cost would be $2.5  billion. Somewhat Higher COLA Rates Projected After 2026 ‑27. Under our forecast, the COLA rate would increase after 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - The monthly salary range for both positions is $5,384 to $8,406 ($64,608 to $100,872 per year) —66  percent to  2.5 times more than the Capital Fellows program. However, unlike these positions, the fellowship program has non ‑monetary benefits such as networking and experiential learning opportunities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2022-23 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 17, 2021 - Under a scenario where the statutory COLA remains at 5 percent, the dip would be closer to $2.5 billion. Although the Legislature could go about determining its mix of one ‑time and ongoing funding in various ways based on its risk tolerance and spending priorities, one approach would be to set aside at least $2.5 billion for one ‑time activities to mitigate the risk from the higher inflation scenario.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4473

The 2023-24 Budget: State and Federal One-Time K-12 Funding

Mar 10, 2023 - Funding is contingent upon meeting certain in ‑person instruction requirements. 2.0 Educator Effectiveness Provides grants based on the number of full ‑time equivalent school staff for training on a variety of topics. 1.5 a Reflects $1.5 billion from ESSER I, $6 billion from ESSER II, and $13.6 billion from ESSER III. b Reflects $2.5 billion in state funding and $2 billion  in federal ESSER flexible funding available for statewide purposes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4734

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Computer Science Proposals

Mar 10, 2020 - We recommend rejecting the proposed $2.5  million to fund a new computer science resource lead. Computer science is a narrow, specific subject area compared to the state ’s other resource leads. Should the Legislature be interested in funding more resource leads, we recommend it focus on broader issues that are more closely aligned to the state ’s priority areas, such as student achievement in math and science.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4198

CalSTRS Funding Update

Jul 19, 2018 - Includes roughly 2.5 percentage points related to a program that protects retirees ’ pensions from the effects of inflation. c Reflects fixed statutory contribution rate for employees hired before January 1, 2013. d Reflects actual rate through 2018-19 and CalSTRS ’ projections thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3873

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

Sep 16, 2024 - The budget provides $2.5  million in one-time federal funds to continue supporting three HETACs originally established in 2021. Three COEs were selected through a competitive grant process and received $4.5  million for a period of three years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

State Budget Effects of Recent Federal Actions to Address COVID-19

Apr 5, 2020 - Under current caseload and utilization estimates, and assuming the enhancement was in place through December 31, 2020, we estimate the state would receive between $1.5  billion to $2.5  billion in General Fund savings in both 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4217

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

Feb 15, 2022 - In  addition to state funding, the federal government funds many education programs on an ongoing basis (around $2.5  billion) that are focused on addressing poor student performance and targeted to students in poverty.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4539

The 2022-23 Budget: Green School Bus Grants

Feb 10, 2022 - Across all of these programs, the total amount available for electric buses over the next several years likely would range from $2  billion to $2.5   billion —roughly double the amount for all school bus replacement programs combined over the past two decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4525