The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - Once the information in the Provider Directory is linked to RC service areas, the department could identify potential gaps in service availability throughout the  state. …But Is Only the First Step Towards Measuring Quality.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

History of Special Education Funding in California

Feb 27, 2018 - Two of these add-ons are linked to specific types of special education services, one is linked to counts of students with specific types of disabilities, and one is linked to sparsely populated regions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3764

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - This brief provides a short summary of the Governor’s proposed budget for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) before addressing four issues that warrant legislative oversight: (1) quality incentives as part of service provider rate reform, (2) the Master Plan for Developmental Services, (3) DDS’s ongoing information technology project, and (4) the phaseout of subminimum wage employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5008

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - Most of this increase appears linked with special forms of pay for high ‑income workers, such as bonuses and stock compensation. These increases, in turn, are linked with the recent run up in the stock market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - The California Master Plan for Education 2004 California Performance Review A commission appointed by the Governor to gather feedback from state employees and recommend ideas for improving the delivery of government services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Education

Oct 17, 2019 - In addition, the budget provides $5  million one time to assist with the development of an early learning and care master plan. In developing the master plan, the Health and Human Services Agency is to contract with at least one research entity to produce at least one report by October 1, 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4096

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - (Among its 2024 ‑25 cohort, the Center reports only 1.5  percent of Fellows held a master ’s degree.) In  fall 2024, the Center received 1,061  applications from 590 unique applicants for the 2025 ‑26  fellowship year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

Improving Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in California

Sep 21, 2016 - This enrollment –based approach ensures that funding is linked with students, new state funding is provided at comparable rates for students receiving comparable services, and funding for the SSS changes gradually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3498

The 2019-20 May Revision: Analysis of the May Revision Education Proposals

May 15, 2019 - Master Plan Still Seems Duplicative of Recent Efforts. We continue to recommend rejecting the $10 million the Governor proposes to use to develop a master plan. If the Legislature wants to fund studies to inform future decisions, we recommend the Legislature designate $1 million each for two focused studies, described below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4048

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Each statewide indicator is linked to one of eight state priority areas. Outcomes from standardized tests, for example, are part of the student achievement priority area, while chronic absenteeism is one of two indicators (along with the high school graduation rate) used to measure student engagement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100