The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - The difference from the Governor ’s budget primarily accounts for a $64  million augmentation consistent with the two-year collectively bargained early education and parity agreement and likely enrollment growth in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - Additionally, DSS and CDE are required to provide point-in-time allocations and projected expenditure levels associated with the collectively bargained early education and parity agreement. (Refer to the Supplemental Report of the 2023‑24 Budget Act for more detail.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - As part of the 2023 collectively bargained early education and parity agreement, the state did not apply the COLAs for 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25. Instead, the amount that would have been required to fund the 2023 ‑24 COLA over the next two years was used to fund the agreement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024