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

California's Education System: A 2019 Guide [Publication Details]

Feb 6, 2019 - California's Education System: A 2019 Guide [Publication Details] California's Education System: A 2019 Guide Format: PDF Description: This report is a visual guide that covers every major area of California’s education system, with chapters on early education, K-12 education, adult precollegiate education, undergraduate education, graduate education, and education facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3924

The 2019-20 Budget: Governor's Proposals for Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Feb 28, 2019 - In addition, the state may have to develop a concurrent strategy to address potential provider shortages which might otherwise preclude serving all eligible children. Depending on how such a strategy was structured, it too may increase state costs by tens of millions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - In February 2021, DSS released a transition plan guide, an overview document that responds at a high level to the key questions identified in statute. Governor ’s Proposal Shifts $3   Billion in Local Assistance Funds for Child Care and Nutrition Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - Moreover, the proposed budget trailer legislation states that the new organization would “strengthen a comprehensive strategy on prevention and early intervention. ” The administration, however, has not specified what barriers currently exist to developing such a comprehensive strategy and how the proposal would effectively alleviate these barriers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

Cal Facts 2018 [Publication Details]

Dec 6, 2018 - With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, quickly summarizing how its economy or state budget works is impossible. Instead, Cal Facts is a visual guide—using a variety of different charts—to the state's economy, revenues, and major program trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3905

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Funding could also be used more broadly to provide for statewide training and support that helps align local practices with research ‑based strategies that improve student outcomes. Funding would be available through Jun 30, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - The first is to establish an Office of Health Care Affordability responsible for increasing price transparency and developing cost containment strategies and targets for the health care industry. The second is to build on last year ’s efforts to control drug spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135