Overview of Special Education Funding Models

Dec 17, 2021 - Census ‑Based Model Avoids Adverse Fiscal Incentives While Being Easy to Understand... The primary benefit of a census ‑based model is its ability to avoid encouraging schools to overidentify students for special education to generate additional funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4486

Updating Special Education Out-of-Home Care Funding

Feb 23, 2021 - This model would ( 1)  a ccount for differences in foster youth enrollment by SELPAs, ( 2)  b e easy to understand, ( 3)  u se reliable and easily updated data, and ( 4)  a void any inappropriate fiscal incentives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4386

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2017-18 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 13, 2017 - The Governor ’s proposes borrowing $6 billion from the state investment pool —an account that invests money from the state and local governments —and use this money to pay down a small portion of state pension liabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3669

Evaluating California’s System for Serving Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Jan 4, 2018 - When a family ’s insurance network does not provide easy access to a specified early intervention provider (as is frequently the case), regional centers pay for these services with state funding. In Some Cases, Schools Provide Services Under Regional Center Contracts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3728

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - Major Spending Choices Figure  2 displays the major budgetary decisions that the Governor made in allocating state and federal money, totaling $85  billion. It includes (1)  the General Fund surplus, (2)  school and community college spending, (3)  the American Rescue Plan (ARP) fiscal relief funds, and (4)  ARP capital projects funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2016-17 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 18, 2016 - Given most school districts collectively bargain teacher salaries and teachers have a longstanding tradition of a single salary schedule, the state presumably has no easy way of encouraging higher pay in its perennial shortage areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3355

CalSTRS Funding Update

Jul 19, 2018 - By the latter years of the Great Recessi on, this unfunded liability had grown significantly and CalSTRS was estimating that it would run out of money by the mid-2040s —a short time horizon for a pension system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3873

State Budget Effects of Recent Federal Actions to Address COVID-19

Apr 5, 2020 - First, the federal government provided about $120 million in additional UI administration money to California. Second, the legislation provides federal funding to cover the full cost of the expanded benefits and eligibility provided by FFCRA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4217

Update on School District Retiree Health Benefits

Sep 25, 2017 - More specifically, it is the amount of money that, if set aside and invested today, would be sufficient to cover the future cost of retiree health benefits already earned by current and former employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3704