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

Nov 14, 2025 - Reduces Emergency Child Care Bridge Program Funding. The budget reduces funding for the Emergency Child Care Bridge program by $30  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund on an ongoing basis. This reduction was based on the administration ’s projections of the amount of funding necessary to meet demand for the program and is not intended to reduce access to services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

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

Jan 13, 2025 - As such, if the Legislature wishes to have substantively more reserves available when responding to downturns or other emergencies, we would recommend also changing the formulas that set aside funds each year to increase how much is saved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care

May 14, 2020 - Most notably, Chapter  3 waives penalties in existing law that reduce funding for schools that do not meet the minimum instructional days or minutes requirements. In addition, Chapter  3 specifies the state will calculate average daily attendance for 2019 ‑20 through the end of February —rather than mid-April —to exclude days when students may not have attended school due to COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4231

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - Simila r to the CARES Act, the state can use these funds on emergency needs related to education. California received $154  million for statewide emergency needs under GEER. Any private school funds remaining after six months also may be used for statewide emergency needs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - Operating Deficit Emerges Assuming Suspensions Do Not Take Effect. As shown in Figure  4, the operating surplus under the Governor ’s budget is roughly $ 400  m illion in 2023 ‑24. This assumes, however, that the suspensions take effect, reducing General Fund spending by $2. 2  b illion in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - These state subsidies would supplement federal subsidies already available to some households and would provide new subsidies to some relatively higher ‑income households that currently do not currently qualify.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - The largest component is $73  million one time to provide additional care for families previously using temporary emergency child care for essential workers and at-risk populations. The budget also provides a $47  million increase for ongoing AP slots which will be prioritized to provide ongoing care for children previously served with temporary emergency child care vouchers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

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

Feb 14, 2023 - Note: Some school districts may allow younger students who do not meet the criteria above to enroll in transitional kindergarten. These students do not generate state funding until their fifth birthday and must turn five before the end of the school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2019-20 Budget: Governor's Proposals for Infants and Toddlers With Special Needs

Feb 28, 2019 - In conversations with stakeholders and experts, we were made aware of at least five major reasons why some eligible children do not receive early intervention services. First, some children do not receive regular physician checkups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

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

Jan 13, 2023 - In contrast, we do not view these items as baseline spending because they were not approved in any budget ‑related legislation. Consequently, we do not consider withdrawing the inflation set ‑aside or shifting back to lease revenue bonds from cash to be budget solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662