The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - The grants support innovation and improvement in lower-division courses, with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM ) courses. The 2025-26 state budget agreement indicated intent to end this program in 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Figure 10 summarizes trends in three earnings measures for former students who enrolled in CTE courses compared to former students who enrolled in non‑CTE courses. (Some students are included in both categories.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - The new framework goes beyond the GI 2025 objectives of increasing graduation rates and closing equity gaps by adding new objectives and several new metrics. One  notable new objective is ensuring all students are able to graduate with a first career job or pathway to graduate education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Given that the results of the recommended data and studies have the potential to notably improve legislative decision ‑making on prison postsecondary education policy and programs moving forward, we believe the added administrative workload is warranted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Districts continue to receive apportionment funding for noncredit courses, as well as credit courses for dual enrollment students and incarcerated students, based entirely on enrollment. Some Districts Receive Additional Funding Through Certain Funding Protections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Higher Education Proposals

May 10, 2022 - If the Legislature deems this proposal a high priority, we recommend adding budget language both to clarify the state ’s role in the project and establish reporting  requirements. Introduction OPR is tasked by state law to support statewide planning and research activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4594

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - Figure 2 Governor ’s Budget Funds New CCC Capital Outlay Projects Proposition 2 Bond Funds (In Thousands) College $399,428 $747,686 a Community college districts issue local general obligation bonds to pay for a share of project costs. b Replacement buildings listed in this category involve adding space. c Center operated by Sequoias Community College District.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2023-24 Budget: University of California

Feb 15, 2023 - Recommend Adding UC Merced Campus Expansion to Budget Solutions List. We recommend the Legislature further expand its budget solutions list by removing funding for the UC Merced expansion project given its lack of justification at this time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4684

Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - To create a stronger financial incentive for adult education providers to serve students well and collaborate in ways that accelerate student success, we recommend adding a performance ‑based component to both CAEP and CCC noncredit apportionment funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Most notably, there can be programmatic impacts, including larger class sizes, fewer course offerings, and less academic support. Another consideration is that demographic pressures are projected to be somewhat weak over the next few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112