The 2018-19 Budget: 2018-19 COLA for K-14 Education Programs

Apr 30, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: 2018-19 COLA for K-14 Education Programs The 2018-19 Budget 2018 ‑19 COLA for K-14 Education Programs The federal government recently released updated information that affects the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) that the state provides to certain school and community college programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3816

Prisons vs. Universities Proposal Would Unwisely Lock Up Budget Flexibility [Publication Details]

Jan 26, 2010 - Prisons vs. Universities Proposal Would Unwisely Lock Up Budget Flexibility [Publication Details] Prisons vs. Universities Proposal Would Unwisely Lock Up Budget Flexibility Format: HTML Description: In his January budget, the Governor proposed a state constitutional amendment that would require reductions in spending on state corrections, with corresponding increases in spending for public universities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2186

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - The state also can channel grant funding toward hospitals located in shortage areas of the state that do not yet have residency programs. We are also concerned about the inefficiency of the state operating two very similar grant programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034

An Analysis of University Reserves

Nov 10, 2020 - At CSU, total core reserves (committed and uncommitted combined) at the end of 2019-20 ranged from less than one month of expenditures at the Fresno campus to six months of expenditures at the Channel Islands campus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4295

The 2024-25 Budget: California State Library

Mar 13, 2024 - The program has a local matching requirement, with grant recipients generall y required to contribute half of the funding for a project. The State Library, however, may reduce the local match if a local library demonstrates it has insufficient financial resources to meet the full matching requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4882

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - For example, Lake Tahoe Community College is piloting an online synchronous (live) format in which students and faculty can communicate through videoconferencing and submit assignments online. For security purposes, each course section is being limited to students from the same section of a prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2022-23 Budget: Middle Class Scholarship Program

Mar 30, 2022 - The state ’s longstanding Cal Grant program primarily provides tuition coverage, with an access award that covers only a small portion of living costs for the lowest ‑income recipients. The Cal Grant access award has increased only slightly over the past two decades and has not kept pace with increases in students ’ living costs, which roughly doubled over that period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4581

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 11, 2021 - To qualify for the grants, local libraries are required to provide a one-to-one dollar match. Libraries with fewer resources per resident in their service areas c an qualify for a smaller local match.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4461

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The  Governor ’s budget includes a $241  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund augmentation for community colleges to receive a 2.41  percent cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA), which effectively equates to an unrestricted base increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Nearly all of the students living on campus are undergraduates, with fewer than 20 graduate students living on campus. As of spring 2023, UC  Merced housed a larger share of its students than the average of the other UC general campuses (38  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937