The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - (County welfare departments are responsible for administering CalWORKs Stage 1, although most counties contract with an AP agency to administer the program.) Most AP agencies are community ‑based organizations, but in some regions the AP agency is a local governmental agency, such as a county office of education, county welfare department, or school district.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - The budget also provides a $47  million increase for ongoing AP slots which will be prioritized to provide ongoing care for children previously served with temporary emergency child care vouchers. These increases are somewhat offset by a $6  million decrease in Proposition  64 funds available for AP slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

Child Care Attendance Records: Comparing Paper and Electronic Processes

Dec 12, 2018 - Figure  1 shows the distribution of AP agencies by contract amount. Whereas ten AP  agencies have total contract amounts less than $ 1  m illion, two have contract amounts in excess of $ 100  m illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3908

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - AP = Alternative Payment; COLA = cost ‑of ‑living adjustment; and ELOP = Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. Suspends Statutory Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA). The budget package suspends the statutory COLA for child care and State Preschool in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - COLA for AP Agencies Would Result in Additional Slots, Running at Odds With Proposal to Delay Scheduled Slot Increases. The Governor ’s proposal to increase the AP program based on COLA and effectively provide additional AP slots is consistent with the state ’s longstanding budgeting practice for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Feb 24, 2016 - To Help Administer Voucher Programs, State Contracts With AP Agencies. For CalWORKs Stages 2 and 3 and the AP program, the state contracts with AP agencies that determine eligibility for care and process payments to providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3367

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - Trailer legislation delays the requirement by two years, as shown in Figure  6. The $340  million in savings associated with this delay is used for the $2.7  billion set aside. Figure 6 Share of Children With Disabilities State Preschool Providers Must Serve by Year Year Plan as of June 2022 Plan as of June 2023 2022 ‑23
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - For example, a CalWORKs family transitioning from Stage 1 t o 2 m ay have to transition from receiving services at their county welfare department to receiving services through an AP agency. Proposal Could Also Create Greater Fragmentation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Governor Has a $6   Billion Surplus to Allocate. We estimate the Governor had a $6  b illion surplus to allocate in the 2020 ‑ 21 b udget process. (The box below gives more information on how we use the term “surplus ” in the Overview of the Governor ’s Budget .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - The flexible statewide ESSER funding was used to provide $112  million for higher reimbursement rates for some school meals, $45  million for a competitive grant to support implementation of the community schools model, $6  million for teacher professional development to address student learning loss, and $2  million for the California Department of Education (CDE) to administer the funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419