The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - Trailer legislation allocates $350  million in one-time funding provided in H.R. 748, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This funding is allocated for the following activities: $152  million for 2019-20 expenses related to COVID-19. $73  million to extend temporary emergency vouchers (as mentioned above). $62.5  million to pay voucher based providers for a child ’s authorized hours of care instead of the amount of care used.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

Options for Modifying the State Child Care Tax Credit

Apr 7, 2016 - Data Issues. We note that the most recent personal income tax data cover tax year 2013. To produce the estimates in this report, we start with 2013 data and project the 2016 income distribution. Estimates will vary somewhat as new data become available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3417

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 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - The administration also stated that under DSS, its implementation of child care programs will “build upon prior efforts, ” such as leveraging data ‑driven decisions to determine allocation of child care funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

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

May 6, 2019 - Given the lack of existing data, we think the administration ’s Head Start program overlap assumption seems reasonable and make the same assumption. We differ from the administration in that we use more recent participation data and we use federal program participation data that is most comparable to state data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4027

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

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

Apr 29, 2021 - COVID ‑19 = coronavirus disease 2019; CARES = Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security; CRRSAA = Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act; ARP = American Rescue Plan; ESSER = Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief; and GEER = Governor ’s Emergency Education Relief.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2019-20 Budget: Governor's Proposals for Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Feb 28, 2019 - Since publishing our evaluation, we received updated data for California which indicate the state has improved somewhat on meeting these deadlines but still does notably worse than most states were doing in their most recent data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954