The 2019-20 Budget: Immigrant Legal Services at the Public Higher Education Segments

May 8, 2019 - Figure 2 Four Contracts for Legal Services at CSU Are Being Finalized Organization
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4029

An Evaluation of CSU's Cross-Campus Online Education Program

Jan 3, 2018 - Finally, the legislation should require CSU to report on its registration process and include an explanation of the process by which students verify how a course will count toward their degree requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3725

The 2018-19 Budget: Analysis of the May Revision Education Budget Proposals

May 14, 2018 - Data from the California Department of Education show that final student attendance for 2016 ‑ 17 c ame in slightly higher than the administration had projected in January. The May Revision updates the 2016 ‑17 guarantee to account for the new data but makes essentially no changes to 2017 ‑ 18 o r 2018 ‑19 attendance estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3834

The 2018-19 Budget: Grant Delivery System Replacement

Mar 6, 2018 - Most state IT projects are required to go through the Project Approval Lifecycle (PAL), a four-stage planning process overseen by the California Department of Technology (CDT). As Figure  1 shows, the process begins with an agency identifying a programmatic problem or opportunity and ends with bidding the project and finalizing IT project details.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3770

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Every year since the inception of GI 2025 in 2016 ‑17, CSU has used a different formula to allocate new GI 2025 funds, such that campuses have not known one year from the next what it takes to obtain program funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Interim Evaluation of Community College Basic Skills Transformation Grants

Dec 5, 2019 - Of the students entering the system in 2011 ‑12, 70  p ercent of prepared students completed a degree, obtained a certificate, or transferred to a four ‑year university within six years, compared to 41  p ercent of unprepared students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4120

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - Overview of Residency Programs Residency Typically Is the Final Training Step to Becoming a Doctor. As the final step in their medical training, residents provide supervised clinical care (traditionally in a hospital setting) and participate in various educational activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - The 2016 ‑17 state budget funded the Board of Governors ’ request, providing $200  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund to create SWP. Subsequent augmentations have brought the program funding level to $290  million ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

California Community Colleges: Interim Evaluation of Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program

Dec 19, 2017 - In this case, the pilot program would have only two freshman cohorts (2016 ‑17 and 2017 ‑18), with the first of those cohorts reflecting only a partial class (as only 10 o f the 15 p ilot programs were operative that year).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3722

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Sep 11, 2024 - Of this amount, $152  million is carried over from appropriations originally made in 2022-23 for local library infrastructure projects; $2.4  million is for disaster preparedness (representing the final year of a four-year funding plan); and $750,000 is new one-time spending to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer historical archives preservation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4926