The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - MOU Includes a Reopener Clause. The MOU between the state and CCPU includes a clause that would reopen negotiations regarding provider reimbursement rates and payment procedures prior to the expiration of the MOU (on June 30, 2028) if the Legislature provides funding to increase child care reimbursement rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Revisiting Various Child Care and State Preschool Funding Policies As we discuss in our recent post, The 2025‑26 Budget: Undertaking Fiscal Oversight , we advise the Legislature to use the 2025‑26 budget process to conduct robust fiscal oversight of state programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - LAO Comments In this section, we provide our key findings from our analysis of the Governor ’s budget proposals. We find the Governor ’s proposal to delay child care slot increases seems reasonable given the projected budget problem and delays in allocating new slot funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - However, the administration has not conducted a workload analysis to determine whether the funding and positions at DSS are in line with its new administrative responsibilities. As a result, it is uncertain whether the level of proposed resources is fully justified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The state constitution has a balanced budget requirement, which means the balance of the SFEU must be set above zero for the upcoming fiscal year. Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2018-19 Budget: Child Care Programs—Analysis of Governor’s Hold Harmless Rate Proposal

Mar 19, 2018 - The 2018-19 Budget: Child Care Programs—Analysis of Governor’s Hold Harmless Rate Proposal The 2018-19 Budget Child Care Programs —Analysis of Governor ’s Hold Harmless Rate Proposal As part of a multiyear budget agreement (spanning from 2016 ‑17 through 2018 ‑19), the Governor and Legislature agreed to reimbursement rate and slot increases for child care and preschool programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3787

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor’s Preschool Slot Estimate

May 6, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor’s Preschool Slot Estimate The 2019-20 Budget Analysis of Governor ’s Preschool Slot Estimate The Governor proposes expanding the State Preschool program over the next three years, with the intent to serve all low-income four-year olds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4027

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - This brief provides an overview and analysis of the Governor’s proposals for transitional kindergarten and State Preschool.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - (Prior to CDE action, rates for the 2023 ‑24 fiscal year were set at the 75 th percentile of the RMR.) To fund these actions, CDE used $167  million temporary COVID-19 relief funds that were set to expire and $265  million Proposition  98 from the set-aside for collective bargaining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - In  our Fiscal Outlook released in November 2022, we anticipated the state would face a $24 billion budget problem, somewhat higher than the $18 billion budget problem we estimate the Governor addressed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662