The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - However, there is no clear rationale for applying a COLA to the portion of funding that covers child care provider payments as these payment amounts are typically adjusted through other mechanisms in the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Jan 13, 2020 - The draft regulations also likely would affect a number of other Medi ‑Cal financing mechanisms, potentially resulting in additional state General Fund costs —and large operating deficits —in the billions of dollars annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

Final EdBudget Tables (2015)

Oct 19, 2015 - Identify Three-Year Degree Pathways UC is to identify three-year degree pathways in 10 of its top 15 majors, with a goal of having 5 percent of students enrolled in these accelerated degree pathways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3299

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

Feb 28, 2019 - California already requires and has mechanisms to automatically pay for Medi ‑Cal plans to provide developmental screenings to all children. While supplemental payments may be appropriate in situations where other program improvement strategies are likely to fail, the administration has not provided a compelling reason to provide supplemental payments as opposed to pursuing alternative solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - Teacher Requirements Bachelor ’s degree, multiple subject teaching credential, and a Child Development Teacher Permit or at least 24  units of ECE/CD or comparable experience. a Child Development Teacher Permit (24 units of ECE/CD plus 16 general education units). a Child Development requirements effective August 1, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

Options for Modifying the State Child Care Tax Credit

Apr 7, 2016 - Similarly, because policies that subsidize child care are designed to increase the demand for child care, the options presented in this report could increase child care costs to some small degree due to increased demand for services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3417

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The budget proposes a number of changes to the mechanism by which the state provides counties with funding for IHSS costs. These changes aim to address some of the shortcomings of the existing cost ‑sharing structure, but counties likely would have unmet costs in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Feb 24, 2016 - As evident from earlier sections of this report, the state ’s existing preschool and child care programs are fraught with inconsistencies in eligibility criteria, standards, funding rates, funding mechanisms, and oversight systems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3367