The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - Settle Up In this section, we examine the Governor ’s proposal to delay a $5.6  billion payment that would be required under the administration ’s estimate of the guarantee. The first section reviews how the state typically makes these payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - Revenues can also fluctuate notably from year to year, even if they track our forecast over a longer period. Figure  8  shows how much the minimum guarantee could differ from our projections based on variations in General Fund revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - Questions to ask the administration could include: How will the data collected from the one ‑time quality incentive payments inform the ongoing quality incentive payments that will be put in place as of 2026?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - From 2023 ‑24 through 2025 ‑26, the state provided rate increases through monthly cost of care plus payments that supplement reimbursement rates for all providers. The state provides $1.1  billion in cost of care plus payments in the 2025 ‑26 budget, representing a 12.2  percent increase in total child care and State Preschool spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5168

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - Are students receiving Cal Grant competitive awards more likely to enroll and graduate from college than those eligible students who just missed the cut ‑off for getting awards? What are the employment outcomes of graduates from CSU and UC teacher preparation programs?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - Many districts also indicate they have specific plans for the remainder of their allocations. $247   Million for Eliminating Payment Deferral. The June 2024 budget deferred $247  million in payments from 2024 ‑25 to 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Next, we explain how our estimates of the guarantee in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25 differ from the state ’s previous estimates. Third, we estimate the guarantee over the 2025 ‑26 through 2028 ‑29 period under our economic forecast.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Giving districts 60 days to screen students, rather than the 30 days required for English learners, provides mo re time for TK students to get comfortable in the school setting before being assessed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

Volatility of the Personal Income Tax Base

Feb 8, 2017 - This brief does not consider directly how tax rate progressivity, deductions, exemptions, or credits affect volatility of PIT revenues paid to the state. We anticipate discussing the volatility resulting from some of these other choices —choices the state has made about how to tax its PIT tax base —in future analyses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3548