The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Program staff also coordinate special initiatives and activities such as hosting intersegmental meetings, overseeing the public resource library, and writing annual reports. (Under statute, Learning Lab is required to submit an annual report to the Legislature on its grant awards.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - As of this writing, five consortia have updated their plan within the past year, while the other three most recently updated their plan between one and two years ago. Although the plans vary in content, they generally cover most of the key components required under statute.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - CCA specializes in the study of art, architecture, design, and writing. It  opened in Berkeley in 1907, relocated to Oakland in 1922, and opened a second campus site in San Francisco in 1996. Serving as a two ‑campus institution for more than two decades, CCA is currently transitioning down to a one ‑campus institution, retaining only its San Francisco site.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

Back to Basics: Improving College Readiness of Community College Students [Publication Details]

Jun 16, 2008 - Back to Basics: Improving College Readiness of Community College Students [Publication Details] Back to Basics: Improving College Readiness of Community College Students Format: HTML Description: Most students who enter California Community Colleges (CCC) lack sufficient reading, writing, and mathematics skills to undertake college–level work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1847

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - As of this writing, we have not yet received this data. In addition, the program evaluation the state funded in 2022 ‑23 budget has not yet begun. The  Chancellor ’s Office indicates they are currently developing a request for proposals for this  evaluation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2024-25 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2024 - As of this writing, 2024 ‑25 compensation increases have not yet been determined for three smaller unions, as well as non ‑represented employees. CSU estimates the cost of every 1  percent increase in its compensation pool for all employee groups in 2024 ‑25 would be $55  million ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4842

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

CCC and UC: An Evaluation of Best Value Procurement Pilot Programs

Dec 21, 2017 - Per UC policy, protests must be made in writing within two calendar weeks of the solicitation (if the protest is about the RFP) or award announcement. UC reported just five protests among the 339 c ontracts awarded during the pilot.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3726

What Is the Adult Education Block Grant?

Jan 6, 2016 - State law authorizes consortia to use block grant funds for programs in seven adult education instructional areas: Elementary and secondary reading, writing, and mathematics (basic skills). English as a second language and other programs for immigrants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3323

The 2023-24 Budget: Student Housing

Mar 9, 2023 - Though the CCC housing projects had not yet been submitted at the time of this writing, we suspect they too are in early planning phases. Even the projects the state funded as part of the first round generally remain in early planning phases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4733