The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - This change includes a $175  million increase in non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund, which is partially offset by a $14  million decrease in Proposition  64 funds and a $10  million decrease in federal funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

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

Nov 10, 2025 - Provides $10  Million to Select a Multilingual Screener for TK Students. The budget package provides $10  million one-time Proposition  98 funding for the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of SBE, to provide a list of developmentally appropriate English proficiency screening instruments to identify multilingual learners in TK.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Recommendation Recommend Increasing Salaries by 10   Percent Instead of 50   Percent. Given all of the factors mentioned above, we recommend the Legislature raise salaries for Fellows by 10  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Sep 16, 2024 - In July 2024, the state enacted Chapter  81 of 2024 (AB  247, Muratsuchi), which places a $10  billion school and community college bond (Proposition  2) on the November 2024 ballot. Of the $10  billion, $8.5  billion would be set aside for schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - Provides $10   Million Annually for Statewide System of Technical Assistance. The Governor ’s proposal would set aside $10  million of the $1  billion for technical assistance centers, including $2  million for the S ‑TAC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

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

Nov 20, 2024 - State Suspended the Proposition   98 Guarantee in 2023 ‑24. The June 2024 budget plan suspended the guarantee in 2023 ‑24 and approved $98.5   billion in funding for schools and community colleges. Although our estimate of General Fund revenue is up compared with the previous estimate, changes in revenue do not directly affect funding when the guarantee is suspended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

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

Nov 19, 2025 - When the state faced significant revenue drops in 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24, it used several tools to sustain ongoing school and community college programs. Most  notably, it withdrew $9.5  billion from the Proposition  98 Reserve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - Figure 4 Program Changes in Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Type New Requirement 10:1 Student to Adult Ratio Effective 2023 ‑24, school sites must have an average of at least one adult for every ten students in TK classrooms.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - For example, in 2023-24, about 23  percent of the roughly 40,000 English learners in TK were not low-income, and would not have generated supplemental and concentration grant funding if they were not determined to be English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

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

Feb 4, 2026 - In October 2010, the state recognized a $1.8  billion increase to its previous estimate of the 2009 ‑10 guarantee. It made an initial payment of $300  million but did not schedule any future payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110