The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The compacts were intended to provide the segments with more predictable funding levels, while also promoting certain performance goals, such as enrolling more resident undergraduates and improvi ng graduation rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2019-20 Budget: Creating an Integrated Education Data System

May 6, 2019 - Given the generally fragmented state of current early education data, addi ng child care and preschool data in the first phase seems premature. Because the higher education segments already match student records with EDD, including EDD wage data in the initial roll out, however, likely would be feasible.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4026

The 2018-19 Budget: California State Library

Apr 13, 2018 - The state has had recent disconcerting experiences paying for capacity upgrades without first reviewi ng evidence of capacity needs. Most notably, an audit examining recent capacity upgrades to schools found schools increased bandwidth tenfold without sufficient justification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3810

The 2019-20 May Revision: Analysis of the May Revision Education Proposals

May 15, 2019 - Basi ng new campus decision on regional economic development, however, likely would generate significant pressure for more campuses in more areas of the state.   Even one new campus would increase the state ’s outyear costs substantially, as initial capital and operating costs are much greater at a new campus compared to an existing campus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4048