The 2019-20 May Revision: K-12 Cal Grant Mandate

May 28, 2019 - Prior to the mandate, CSM indicates it received more than 70,000 paper GPA forms, which required significant staff time to process. Further, high school counselors had to complete these paper forms to certify student GPAs prior to sending to CSAC, which likely also required signific ant staff time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4052

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

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - This year, several community colleges that are large providers of correspondence courses are piloting a form of online instruction in place of the traditional paper ‑and ‑mail model. For example, Lake Tahoe Community College is piloting an online synchronous (live) format in which students and faculty can communicate through videoconferencing and submit assignments online.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

May 14, 2018 - For years in which the guarantee drops, the state on paper would reduce spending counting toward the guarantee and credit the difference to a newly created true ‑up account called the “Proposition 98 Cost Allocation Schedule. ” For years in which the guarantee ends up higher during certification, the state would apply any available credits in this account toward the spending required to meet the higher minimum guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3834

The 2017-18 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 16, 2017 - A student writing a paper on an environmental controversy, for example, could gain exposure to different perspectives on the issue, research current data, and use that information to draw conclusions about the issue.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3559