The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - Recommend Requesting More Information on Child Care Infrastructure Funding. The Governor proposes $11.5 million one‑time Proposition 64 funding to provide child care infrastructure grants to licensed child care providers impacted by recent wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The law allows districts to request waivers from most parts of the state education code, and the SBE is responsible for reviewing and approving these requests. The board also approves certain types of district reorganizations, such as when districts wish to merge or consolidate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - For  LEAs with eligible school sites that do not opt in by November 1, 2026, trailer legislation specifies that LEAs will have the opportunity to submit a request to be considered for funding during regular intervals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Specifically, these programs must offer the program to all TK through grade 6 students in classroom ‑based settings and provide access to  all students whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - In addition to state funding for this project, DDS is requesting enhanced funding from the federal government through the Advanced Planning Document process. This process allows the state to request a 90   percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50   percent match) to develop IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - This report, prepared at the request of the Legislature, makes recommendations primarily intended to increase transparency of operations and activities at county offices of education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

The 2018-19 Budget: Commission on Teacher Credentialing—Record Digitization

May 1, 2018 - According to CTC, over the past two years, staff received a total of 780 requests for credential records issued prior to 1989 —roughly one request per day. While this number is already quite small, the number of requests is likely to decrease in the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3819

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - The Center shared that this request originally was tied to a new federal requirement, which has since been vacated. (Specifically, a federal regulation would have increased the salary threshold to be classified as salaried employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2022-23 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Jan 25, 2022 - Requests for this latter pool consistently exceed available funding, in which case SELPAs receive a prorated portion of their request. In 2019 ‑20, the nonpublic school extraordinary cost pool reimbursed funding requests around $0.22 to the dollar.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4494

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - Require Administration to Provide More Justification for Budget Requests. We also recommend the Legislature request that the administration provide additional information that would support its budget proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409