The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Proposal Governor Proposes to Provide General Fund Appropriation for BPPE in 2025-26. The Governor ’s budget provides a $10  million one-time General Fund appropriation for BPPE in 2025-26 (to be implemented through the next round of amendments to the 2025-26 Budget Act ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Additionally, as part of its Graduation Initiative 2025 (GI 2025), CSU campuses have worked to redesign courses and provide faculty development to build pedagogies that emphasize active learning to improve student outcomes, especially for underrepresen ted minority and first-generation students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - While this funding has now mostly been allocated to grantees, Proposition  4 —the 2024 climate bond —also assigned LCI and SGC responsibilities for administering bond funding for a number of similar climate programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Mar 19, 2026 - In this brief, we assess the Governor’s 2026-27 proposals for child care and State Preschool and provide associated recommendations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The latter reductions are primarily due to lower Proposition  64 revenues and the use of one ‑time federal carryover funds in 2025 ‑26 ( Figure  5 ). Figure 4
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - The 2026 ‑27 budget projects the average monthly number of IHSS hours per case to increase from 125.1 hours in 2025 ‑26 to 127 hours in 2026 ‑27. We  will discuss the growth in IHSS hours per case in a later section of this brief.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - The Governor ’s budget proposals in 2024 and 2025 each included $60  million to fund the grant program but were not included in the final budget act due to projected deficits in those years. Governor ’s Proposal Extend California Competes for an Additional Five Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - CDE currently employs about 1,500  staff and has a budget of $366  million —$196  million in federal funds, $126  million in non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund, and $44  million in various special funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - In several comment letters to SWRCB over the years—most recently in January 2025 —the U.S. EPA has concurred that current flows are insufficient to protect fish, acknowledging that the Bay‑Delta watershed is in a state of ecological decline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - State Allocated First Round of Proposition  2 Bond Funds in 2025-26. The 2025-26 budget provided $142  million in Proposition  2 bond funding for community college capital outlay projects. Of this amount, $55  million was for the preliminary plans and working drawings phases of 29 new projects selected using the above scoring system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159