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

Nov 14, 2025 - The refill is only available in years when child care reimbursement rates do not increase or when both rates and the number of enrolled providers increase. Up to $15  million annually for the CCPU Training Partnership Fund, which supports the training of CCPU members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

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

Feb 14, 2023 - Maintaining the staffing ratio at current levels avoids additional ongoing Proposition 98 General Fund costs that would make the problem worse. Facility Issues Do Not Appear as Prevalent a Barrier to Implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - (AP agencies do not receive a similar COLA for CalWORKs child car e.) As part of the 2023 collectively bargained early education and parity agreement, the state did not apply the COLAs for 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Because non ‑LEA providers do not have these same advantages, we think it is likely that they will find serving a larger share of students with disabilities more challenging. This is particularly true of those that do not already operate Head Start.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - Shifts All Funding for Non ‑LEAs to Non ‑Proposition  98 Side of the Budget. The budget shifts $ 297  m illion in State Preschool funding from Proposition  98 General Fund to non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

Options for Modifying the State Child Care Tax Credit

Apr 7, 2016 - In targeting additional resources for an expanded credit, the Legislature could consider restricting the tax credit to filers who do not receive any subsidies, as this would increase the relative benefit to those families who do not receive subsidies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3417

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - As such, the state must provide additional Proposition  98 funding for State Preschool in 2024 ‑25 consistent with the collective bargaining and parity agreement. The Governor ’s budget includes a $49  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund increase to cover these costs, but does not include the associated $64  million Proposition  98 funding increase for this purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The constitution also requires the state to make deposits into a Proposition   98 r eserve when a series of conditions are met. Under the administration ’s estimates, the balance of the Proposition   98 r eserve would reach $ 487  m illion at the end of 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - Proposition  98 covers the bulk of the increase, followed by non-Proposition  98 General Fund and federal funds. The increase is offset by a net decline of $297  million in one-time funds from 2021-22 for support programs for preschool.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - The 2019 ‑ 20 b udget package included an additional $ 300  m illion one ‑time non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund for the program and made several programmatic changes. Most notably, the new funding was limited in the first two years to school sites that currently do not offer full ‑day kindergarten.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167