The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - State law does not specify what share of these funds would go to community colleges. If the Legislature were to allocate the funds in proportion to the current split of Proposition 98 spending between the two segments, an estimated $608 million would go to community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - From 2022 ‑23 through 2024 ‑25, CSAC determined what percentage of each student ’s remaining costs to cover based on the annual MCS appropriation. In 2022 ‑23, award coverage was 26  percent, followed by 36  percent in 2023 ‑24, and 35  percent in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Every year since the inception of GI 2025 in 2016 ‑17, CSU has used a different formula to allocate new GI 2025 funds, such that campuses have not known one year from the next what it takes to obtain program funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - (The survey defines “very close ” to mean the job is in the same field, while it defines “close ” to mean that the job is in a different field but still uses what the student learned.) We  do not know, however, whether these respondents are representative of CTE students more broadly, especially because only a small share of students receiving the survey choose to respond (between 14 percent and 33  percent  annually).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - Therefore, data will continue to be collected over the next couple of years to understand what marketing efforts have the greatest impact on increasing claim rates. With Another Manager, CalKIDS Staffing Would Remain Top Heavy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - State law declares that it is in the best interest of the public and the state for public libraries to exist and receive “adequate financial support from government at all levels. ” State law does not provide a clear definition of what constitutes adequate financial support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - We recommend the Legislature request the department to answer, at a minimum, the following  questions: What workload is CSAC currently unable to  cover? What are the programmatic implications of not being able to perform this work?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2020-21 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 20, 2020 - Historically, the state has not had a policy for what share of cost the state and students should bear, but implicitly it has shared costs with students (and their families) through a tuition charge, which is set by the Board of Trustees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4168

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - As Figure  5 shows, after adjusting for inflation, total core funding per student in 2024 ‑25 is similar to what it was in 2015 ‑16. In 2024 ‑25, state support makes up one ‑third of CLSF ’s core funding, compared to just over one ‑fifth a decade ago.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014