^[PDF] Overview of California’s Master Plan for Higher Education

Great Disparities in Transfer Rates • The CCC Chancellor’s Office calculates transfer rates using a base that includes only students who (1) attempted a transferable math or English course and (2) completed at least 12 units within a six-year period.
https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/education/2005/Master_Plan_Overview_022205.pdf

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

^[PDF] Promoting Access to Higher Education: A Review of the State's Transfer Process

For exam- ple, an IGETC-approved math course at a given community college is automatically accepted at every UC and CSU campus for meeting IGETC requirements. Similarly, our proposal would increase the number of university campuses that will accept a given community college course.
https://lao.ca.gov/2006/CCC_transfer/CCC_transfer_011706.pdf

Improving Academic Preparation For Higher Education

Figure 1 Standards for Demonstrating College Preparedness Reading and Writing None CSU Score 550 on SAT I verbal test; 680 on SAT II writing test; 25 on ACT verbal test; or 3 on AP writing test; or Score 560 on SAT math test; 560 on SAT II math test; 24 on ACT math test; or 3 on
https://lao.ca.gov/2001/remediation/020801_remediation.html

LAO 2004 Budget Analysis: Intersegmental: Higher Education Admissions and Enrollment

In this section, we have recommended a series of admissions-related steps the Legislature can take to preserve the Master Plan's com mitment to access with limited resources. In another section of this chapter, we examine the state's outreach programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2004/education/highered_04_enrollment_anl04.htm

LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Education, California State University (6610)

Figure 3 CSU Standards for Demonstrating College Preparedness Writing Math ·   Score 550 on SAT I verbal test; 680 on SAT II writing test; 24 on ACT English test; or 3 on AP writing test. ·   Score 550 on SAT I math test; 550 on SAT II math test; 23 on ACT math
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2003/education/hied_08_6610_anl03.htm

^[PDF] Back to Basics: Improving College Readiness of Community College Students

As discussed earlier, existing law allows com- munity colleges to choose the assessments they administer to new students (subject to approval by BOG). Currently, dozens of different standard- ized tests are used throughout the CCC system.
https://lao.ca.gov/2008/edu/ccc_readiness/ccc_readiness_0608.pdf

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Recruit Qualifi ed Teachers to Work in Subject Shortage Areas.• Com- pared to the above categories, programs in this category tend to be small and focused on persuading college students with certain subject-matter • Internship Credential.
https://lao.ca.gov/2009/edu/teacher_recruitment/teacher_recruitment_030409.pdf