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 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: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The increase in funding effectively allows CAPP to increase access to child care. In 2023 ‑24, the state redirected funding associated with the statutory COLA for all programs to cover costs of the monthly cost of care plus payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Computer Science Supplementary Authorization [Publication Details]

Mar 6, 2026 - This post analyzes the Governor’s budget proposal to increase the size of grants and extend the Computer Science Supplementary Authorization Incentive program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5153

The 2026-27 Budget: Computer Science Supplementary Authorization

Mar 6, 2026 - As a result, a modest increase in the size of the grant, as proposed by the Governor, is unlikely to increase demand for the program. Recommendation Reject Proposal. We recommend the Legislature reject this proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5153

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - In 2025 ‑26, the state increased funding to $4.6  billion and made several programmatic changes. One goal of the funding increase was to ensure that 2025 ‑26 Tier 2 rates would be no less than $1,579 per EL/LI student.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Though CSU is reporting higher state‑supported enrollment in each of the past two years, part of these increases has come from shifting enrollment from self‑ to state‑supported courses rather than adding new enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Under alternative 2, the entire funding increase would be provided through a combination of supplemental and concentration grant funding, with no increase in base funding. Of  the alternatives we identified, this approach would provide the largest increases to high UPP  districts, although none of the increase would come through base funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

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

Nov 19, 2025 - School Attendance Projected to Increase in 2025‑26, Then Decline. We estimate that school attendance will increase by 0.9 percent in 2025‑26. Two main factors explain the increase. First, districts can begin implementing attendance recovery programs—a recent measure that allows districts more flexibility to offset student absences by providing instruction outside the regular school day.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Districts must use their supplemental and concentration grant funding to proportionally increase or improve services for their English learners, foster youth, and low-income students, relative to the base amount of funding they receive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990