The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - The Learning Lab program director and Foundation staff manage grants and work with grantees throughout the grant process. This work includes developing requests for proposals, evaluating project proposals, executing grant agreements, monitoring project progress, and closing out grants upon their expiration.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - If any of these issues raise notable concerns for the Legislature, it could direct the Chancellor ’s Office to adjust its scoring system accordingly and work with the administration to propose a new set of projects at the May Revision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - The formula also deducts a student contribution from part ‑time work earnings. Specifically, the MCS calculation assumes a student works 15 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, at the state minimum wage rate, as adjusted annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

Trends in Higher Education: College Affordability [Publication Details]

Mar 14, 2024 - This brief is the second of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. The second brief focuses on college affordability. It covers changes in cost of attendance and student financial aid over the past few decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4884

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - In response to the statutory requirement to eliminate barriers to hiring CTE instructors, the Chancellor ’s Office and the Academic Senate established a work group on minimum qualifications. Although the work group did not recommend notable changes to minimum qualifications, it did develop new guidance to help districts use the existing equivalency process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2020-21 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 20, 2020 - Under the state ’s 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education , CCC students who complete their lower ‑division work with a minimum 2.0 grade point average (GPA) are eligible to attend CSU as upper ‑division undergraduate students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4168

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Over the past year, CSU has been working on developing its next graduation initiative. To develop the framework of the new initiative, CSU gathered feedback from faculty, students, campus leaders, staff, alumni, and community partners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - Though data on its graduates is limited, CCA shared that many of its graduates remain in California and work at organizations such as KQED Arts & Culture; SFMOMA; Pixar; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - This program provides one-time grants of up to $10,000 to students in teacher preparation programs who commit to working at a priority school (a school where at least 55  percent of students are low-income, English learners, or foster youth).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Sep 11, 2024 - Most notably, it lowers the maximum award amount from $20,000 to $10,000 and correspondingly reduces the length of time recipients are required to work at a priority school from four years to two years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4926