The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - Trailer legislation specifies that EL counts in TK will be calculated by applying a fact or to TK enrollment equal to the share of ELs enrolled in kindergarten who are not eligible for free or reduced-price meals and not a foster youth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

Improving Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in California

Sep 21, 2016 - (This amount is linked to certain SSS reimbursement rate changes that we recommend in the next section —changes that free up about $25  million in state funds per year.) To obtain grants, new or existing regional programs would submit applications specifying the number of students they intend to serve and the specific expenses they intend to incur.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3498

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - State law sets a state rate for free meals, which supplements the federal rate for free meals. For paid and reduced ‑priced meals, the state provides funds to match the combined state and federal rate for free meals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - Federal Reimbursement Rates Schools reimbursed at free, reduced, or paid rate. Based on meal count and student household income. ISP is multiplied by 1.6 to determine the share of meals served that will be reimbursed at the free rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

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 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - Trailer legislation as part of the 2021 ‑22 budget package requires that, beginning in 2022 ‑23, all schools provide one free breakfast and one free lunch per school day to any student requesting a meal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - Frees Up Current Funding for Extension Grants. Trailer legislation proposes to free up the $485  million allocated in prior budgets that is set aside for the two ‑year extension grants. Current community schools grantees would no longer be required to submit requests for extensions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The Legislature, however, might consider more targeted initiatives linked with specific goals. For example, it could link any one ‑time workforce funding to helping with a transition to a new child care reimbursement rate system and/or higher minimum program standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2016-17 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 18, 2016 - Frees up $30  million for other one –time Proposition  98 purposes. County Offices of Education Repeal the COE minimum state aid provision to avoid creating new and growing funding inequities among COEs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3355

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the May Revision Education Proposals

May 15, 2017 - Funding at the minimum guarantees across the period would free up $1.6 billion General Fund for non ‑Proposition 98 programs and/or higher discretionary state reserves. Other Alternative Could Free Up Funding for Rest of Budget While Still Funding Schools Above the Guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3670