Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Strong Workforce Program CCC Convened Task Force to Examine Ways to Improve CTE. In 2014, the CCC Board of Governors convened the Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation, and a Strong Economy —commonly known as the “Strong Workforce Task Force ” —to examine ways to produce more industry ‑valued certificates and degrees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - The remainder of this section examines these cost drivers in greater detail. Trends in enrollment are covered in the “Enrollment ” section of this brief. Employee Compensation as a Share of UC ’s Budget Has Grown.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - In this vein, we recommend the Legislature examine the Governor ’s proposals relating to Golden State Teacher Grants, College Corps, and College of the Arts especially carefully, as they would be funded from the non ‑Proposition  98 side of the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - Alternatively, CSAC could take more time to examine where its workload gaps are most pronounced and submit a new budget change request for the 2026 ‑27  budget  cycle. Request for CISO Is Reasonable, Recommend Approving.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - In identifying possible revenue options, the law library might want to examine the types of users making requests, the complexity of the requests it receives, and the frequency of requests from the same users.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2024-25 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 30, 2024 - In examining the standard criteria for qualifying for state lease revenue bonds, the administration also has determined that three of the CCC projects (in the Napa, Santa Rosa, and Imperial Valley areas) are not good candidates for this type of financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829?utm_source=Legislative+Analyst%27s+Office&utm_campaign=415eaeb623-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_30_4829&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-415eaeb623-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

The 2024-25 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 30, 2024 - In examining the standard criteria for qualifying for state lease revenue bonds, the administration also has determined that three of the CCC projects (in the Napa, Santa Rosa, and Imperial Valley areas) are not good candidates for this type of financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - In addition, $750,000 was designated on a one ‑time basis in 2022 ‑23 for a program evaluation that examines the first cohort of participating colleges over a period of at least five years. Since 2022 ‑23, the state has retained the provisional budget language funding this program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

Interim Evaluation of Community College Basic Skills Transformation Grants

Dec 5, 2019 - Given the poor quality of the data reported by Transformation Grant recipients, we examined an alternative data source to track course completion rates. Specifically, we used the state ’s main data system for all colleges —known as the Management Information System (MIS) —to examine trends in the share of students completing transferable college ‑level math and English courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4120