The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - The intent of this new authority was to allow CDE to fully expend temporary COVID-19 relief funds before they were set to expire at the end of September 2023. CDE issued two types of temporary payments under this new authorit y.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - The budget package includes supplemental reporting language for DSS to provide, on or before March  1, 2024, an estimate of child care program funds that may go unspent by the end of 2023 ‑24 and what amount of unspent funds cannot be reappropriated and would revert back to the state or federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Under these estimates and assumptions, the state would end 2023 ‑24 with $3.8  billion in the SFEU. Figure 4
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - As mentioned earlier, the Governor proposes a year ‑end balance in the SFEU of $1. 6  b illion. This represents a $ 230  m illion increase relative to the enacted level of the fund for the end of 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2018-19 Budget: Child Care Programs—Analysis of Governor’s Hold Harmless Rate Proposal

Mar 19, 2018 - We recommend the Legislature allow existing hold harmless provisions to expire at the end of 2018. At the 75 th percentile of the most recent survey, families in all areas of the state have access to the vast majority of child care providers in their areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3787

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor’s Preschool Slot Estimate

May 6, 2019 - To this end, the administration estimates that 30,000 additional State Preschool slots would be needed. In this post, we compare the administration ’s estimate with our independent estimate, then discuss the key assumptions underlying each of the estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4027

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - We think delaying the transition until a year after the COVID ‑ 19 e mergency declaration has ended would be a reasonable approach. Modify Scope of the Transition. The Legislature could reduce the number of programs shifting to DSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

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

Feb 14, 2023 - These students do not generate state funding until their fifth birthday and must turn five before the end of the school year. State Also Made Recent Programmatic Changes to TK. The 2021 ‑22 budget agreement also included a new class size requirement for TK —specifically , requiring that school districts maintain an average TK classroom enrollment of no more than 24 students at each school site.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care

May 14, 2020 - In addition, Chapter  3 specifies the state will calculate average daily attendance for 2019 ‑20 through the end of February —rather than mid-April —to exclude days when students may not have attended school due to COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4231