The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - The refill is only available in years when child care reimbursement rates do not increase or when both rates and the number of enrolled providers increase. Up to $15  million annually for the CCPU Training Partnership Fund, which supports the training of CCPU members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - Note: Some school districts may allow younger students who do not meet the criteria above to enroll in transitional kindergarten. These students do not generate state funding until their fifth birthday and must turn five before the end of the school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition. Specifically, the administration has higher revenue estimates than our office, but these are mostly offset by their higher spending estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 28, 2019 - In conversations with stakeholders and experts, we were made aware of at least five major reasons why some eligible children do not receive early intervention services. First, some children do not receive regular physician checkups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - In contrast, we do not view these items as baseline spending because they were not approved in any budget ‑related legislation. Consequently, we do not consider withdrawing the inflation set ‑aside or shifting back to lease revenue bonds from cash to be budget solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - (AP agencies do not receive a similar COLA for CalWORKs child car e.) As part of the 2023 collectively bargained early education and parity agreement, the state did not apply the COLAs for 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Because non ‑LEA providers do not have these same advantages, we think it is likely that they will find serving a larger share of students with disabilities more challenging. This is particularly true of those that do not already operate Head Start.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Overall, we do not expect access to child care to be significantly impacted by the delay in the overall slot expansion plan given that providers likely will be able to serve additional families in 2023 ‑24 with current unfilled  slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

Final EdBudget Tables (2015)

Oct 19, 2015 - California State University Reporting requirements (1) Report by November 30, 2015 a sustainability plan with enrollment projections, performance targets, and changes needed to ensure expenditures do not exceed available resources, using General Fund and tuition revenue assumptions provided by the Department of Finance. (2) Report by April 1, 2016 on factors impacting graduation rates for all students and for low-income and underrepresented students separately.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3299

A Review of Child Care and Preschool Program Flexibilities in Certain Counties

May 13, 2021 - Moreover, the PRRs do not target rate increases to specific age groups that might have the lowest rates relative to the RMR. (The RMR captures cost variation based on both region and a child ’s age using a survey of licensed child care providers.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431