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

Nov 14, 2025 - The budget provides $21.8  million in one-time federal funding to reform and automate state and local data systems to allow for the implementation of new child care provider rates based on an alternative methodology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor’s Preschool Slot Estimate

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4027

A Review of Child Care and Preschool Program Flexibilities in Certain Counties

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431

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

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3367

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - LAO Comments TK Estimates Will Be Updated as Current ‑Year Data Become Available. The state will have a better sense of TK attendance for 2022 ‑23 when CDE releases preliminary attendance data in the coming weeks (based on attendance data through December).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - It also notes that data from child care and development programs would be folded into the agency ’s overall data integration efforts and that the new department would support a comprehensive strategy related to prevention and early intervention.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - Preliminary enrollment data for 2023 ‑24 indicate growth of less than one-half of 1  percent in 2023 ‑24 compared to 2022 ‑23. Given these trends, State Preschool enrollment is likely to increase in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

California's Education System: A 2019 Guide [Publication Details]

Feb 6, 2019 - Throughout the report, we rely almost entirely upon state and federal government data sources and cite the most readily available data. Within each chapter, we tend to focus on the students who are served, the state programs designed to serve them, the funds supporting those programs, how program funding is spent, and what is known about outcomes in that area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3924