The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - With Another Manager, CalKIDS Staffing Would Remain Top Heavy. The CalKIDS program currently has one manager position for every one staff position. This ratio is much higher than the state average. As of March  2024, the average statewide ratio of supervisorial positions (such as SSMIs) to non-supervisorial positions (such as AGPAs) is one-to-six.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Major University Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - Consider Developing Coordinated Strategy to Meet Students ’ Basic Needs. Beyond its immediate budget decisions in 2021 ‑22, the Legislature has an opportunity to begin shaping the state ’s longer ‑term strategy around students ’ basic needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4336

California Community Colleges: Second Progress Report on the Student Success Act of 2012

Sep 22, 2016 - One district we interviewed, for example, had analyzed course scheduling for the top degree programs its students identified in their education plans. Its analys is identified some poor sequencing of course offerings, such as not offering required prerequisites for a certain course in the term immediately prior to offering the course.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3500

The 2019-20 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2019 - In its improvement plan, UC highlights several strategies campuses have undertaken in recent years to increase student retention and graduation. These strategies include offering summer bridge and orientation programs, creating new student learning communities, expanding and streamlining student tutoring and academic counseling services, and developing online courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3946

Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - On top of this base rate, colleges receive additional funding for each student enrolled who is low income and additional funding based on performance, as measured by graduation rates and various other student outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652

Interim Evaluation of Community College Basic Skills Transformation Grants

Dec 5, 2019 - Grant recipients were to implement certain evidence ‑based improvement strategies. Chapter   22 r equired grant recipients to collect and report to the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor ’s Office a variety of information, including the types of strategies implemented, the size of cohorts served by the new strategies, and the outcomes for students served by these strategies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4120

Creating a Debt Free College Program

Jan 31, 2017 - Rather, the Blue and Gold Plan was a messaging strategy that reduced a more complex discussion of financial aid into an easily understood message. Similarly, the state could create a simplified “debt free ” messaging strategy for students even if it retained all existing aid programs and created an additional aid program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3540

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - This income level equates to roughly the top 90th percentile of households in California (meaning only about one in ten households makes above that level). Lastly, under the revamped program, students at private universities remain ineligible for MCS awards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2023-24 Budget: University of California

Feb 15, 2023 - UC ’s first compact progress report (released in November 2022) identified several strategies it plans to use to achieve this goal. These strategies include expanding the number of UC Transfer Pathways and expanding support programs for transfer students from underrepresented groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4684

The 2018-19 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Feb 15, 2018 - The administration describes learning science as a field of study that seeks to further scientific understanding of learning —that is, how individuals learn, the process of learning in different contexts, and which learning strategies are best for students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3754