The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - In this brief, we examine the Governor ’s proposal to restructure state governance. The first section explains how the current system evolved and describes the main entities and their responsibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 4, 2026 - This brief examines the estimates of the Proposition 98 guarantee in the Governor’s budget and assesses the overall structure of the Governor’s school spending plan. It also examines a few of the larger spending proposals and the proposal to delay a $5.6 billion settle-up payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - School Spending Plan In this section, we examine the Governor ’s plan  for allocating Proposition  98 funds to schools. First,  we describe the Governor ’s overall approach and explain the most notable spending proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - In this brief, we examine the Governor’s proposal to restructure state governance. The first section explains how the current system evolved and describes the main entities and their responsibilities. The second section reviews previous governance studies and explains how governance works in other contexts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5165

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - As part of differentiated assistance, LEAs must examine their root issues and access support to help them improve. To comply with federal accountability rules, the state uses a similar process to identify schools in need of support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - For this analysis, we examined the historical relationship between previous revenue estimates and actual tax collections, then calculated the guarantee under the different revenue scenarios. The uncertainty in our estimates increases significantly over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - This brief examines the estimates of the Proposition 98 guarantee in the Governor’s budget and assesses the overall structure of the Governor’s plan for K-12 funding. It also examines a few of the larger spending proposals and the proposal to delay a $1.6 billion settle-up payment. Update (2/21/25): This brief has been updated to reflect our office’s estimate of the K-12 COLA (2.26 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

Narrowing California’s K-12 Student Achievement Gaps

Jan 31, 2020 - Achievement Gaps Gaps Between Several Student Groups Examined. The work group examined K ‑12 achievement gaps by student race/ethnicity. It also examined gaps between the general population of students and low ‑income students, English learners, students with disabilities, foster youth, and homeless youth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4144

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - CTC competitively awards grants of $4,000 per participant per year for up to five years to LEAs, COEs, and charter schools. 170.0 California Examination and Assessment Fee Waiver Program 2022 ‑23 and Subsidized teacher preparation examination fees for teacher and administrator candidates CTC automatically awarded fee waivers to teacher and administrator
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - When we examined individual districts with at leas t 5 0 t ransfer students, the share of female students ranged fro m 4 0  p ercent t o 6 0  p ercent. These results are similar to our previous findings based o n 2 014 ‑ 15 d ata.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329