The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Given the COLA is not targeted to AP agency operational costs (the component of these programs that faces inflationary costs), the Legislature may want to consider modifying the statutory COLA to better align funding with costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Both our office and the administration project that the state faces a manageable budget problem this year. The Governor addresses the budget problem primarily with spending ‑related solutions, as shown in the figure below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - That said, both our office and the administration anticipate the budget faces deficits in future years. Governor ’s Budget Includes Some Smaller Proposals. The Governor ’s budget includes three categories of discretionary proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Jan 13, 2020 - While our office ’s most recent revenue estimates are somewhat higher in the out years than the administration ’s current estimates, under both sets of revenue estimates the state would face operating deficits under two conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care

May 14, 2020 - The state ’s child care providers also have faced numerous changes to the way they must operate to minimize the spread of COVID-19. The federal and state governments have taken various steps to assist K-12 schools and child care providers in their response to COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4231

Options for Modifying the State Child Care Tax Credit

Apr 7, 2016 - In addition to making the credit refundable, the Legislature would face many other choices in modifying the credit. Below, we discuss these key choices, or decision points, and identify issues for legislative consideration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3417

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - To the extent that providers have difficulty implementing the 10  percent requirement, the Legislature will also want to consider ways to change the existing program to help address the key barriers that providers face.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - For both types of projects, the state can contribute up to 100  p ercent of project costs if districts face challenges in raising their local shares. In certain cases, the SFP allows districts completing projects below the budgeted cost to use project savings for other facility priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - Should the Legislature proceed with the concept of a state individual mandate and state insurance subsidies, it will face various choices related to the structure of both the state subsidies and the individual mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916