Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - As part of differentiated assistance, LEAs must examine their root issues and access support to help them improve. To comply with federal accountability rules, the state uses a similar process to identify schools in need of support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2020-21 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 24, 2020 - In some cases, we provide alternative options that would align more closely with existing efforts to address the root problems. These alternatives could be structured to cost less than the amounts proposed by the Governor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4174

Narrowing California’s K-12 Student Achievement Gaps

Jan 31, 2020 - While we believe both of the Governor’s achievement gap proposals have laudable intent, we cannot determine from the information currently available whether they would require districts to undergo the types of ongoing changes needed to address their root issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4144

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - Under the state ’s accountability system, school districts that have poor performance for one or more student subgroups based on these indicators must examine their root issues and access support to help them improve.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

Re-Envisioning County Offices of Education: A Study of Their Mission and Funding

Feb 6, 2017 - Even setting aside the complexity of special education funding, COEs prior to LCFF could receive funding from many different programs, with funds allocated based upon many factors, some of which were rooted in COEs ’ behavior decades earlier.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3547