The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Under SCFF, apportionment costs can come in higher than projected for a number of reasons, including higher low ‑income student counts, better student outcomes, or enrollment adjustments other than growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - CCC faculty receive a certain number of flex days so they can take time outside of teaching to pursue professional development activities, including developing new course designs, tools, and materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - The CCC system includes 72 local community college districts that operate 115 college campuses, as well as a number of off-campus centers and district offices. Based on the system ’s most recent five-year capital outlay plan, these sites have a combined 87  million square feet of building space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - As Figure  5 shows, the revamped program resulted in a sharp increase in the number of MCS recipients and the amount of spending. For the eight years in which the state implemented the original MCS program, the program gave awards to an average of about 56,000 recipients each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Based on this data, the number of students earning any CTE award increased by 50 percent from 2015‑16 to 2023‑24. Figure 9 shows the increase by award type. During this period, the number of students earning each type of CTE award increased significantly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - This cost increase is primarily explained by a higher-than-expected number of Cal Grant recipients. Recipient counts in the CCC Expanded Entitlement program were notably higher than original budget assumptions (23  percent higher), as were recipient counts for the Transfer Entitlement program (14  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - For example, if the state ’s objective is to improve student retention rates, funds could be allocated to campuses based on the number of first ‑year students enrolled in certain courses or the improvement in retention rates over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2024-25 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 21, 2024 - To obtain a license, students must graduate from an approved nursing program, pass a national licensing examination, and complete certain other steps (such as undergoing a criminal background check).  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4853

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

Mar 10, 2025 - Over the last decade, the number of individuals employed by CLSF has increased. In 2015 ‑16, CLSF ’s workforce totaled 231 individuals. By 2024 ‑25, this total had grown to 278 individuals (increasing by 21  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - As Figure  12 shows, the number of incarcerated students enrolled at the community colleges has increased over the past decade —from about 2,200 FTE students in 2014 ‑15 to about 7,100 FTE students in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005