Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Earnings Outcomes Differ for CTE Versus Non‑CTE Students. To measure earnings outcomes for former students who are now employed, the Chancellor’s Office has a data sharing agreement with the Employment Development Department.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - As Figure   4 shows, the General Fund share of UC ’s total core funding has increased from 37   percent in 2011 ‑12 to 43   percent in 2025 ‑26. As the state share has increased, the tuition share had decreased —falling from 57   percent in 2011 ‑12 to 52   percent in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - One way has been to place its pooled cash in investment accounts and use some of the annual investment earnings to support core operations. In UC ’s 2024 ‑25 budget plan, it identified $90  million in investment earnings that it designated for its core operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

Trends in Higher Education: Student Outcomes [Publication Details]

Apr 18, 2024 - This brief is the third of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. The third brief focuses on student outcomes and how they have changed over the past few decades. The brief also raises key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4895

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Specifically, we recommend the Chancellor ’s Office be required to report: the number of incarcerated FTE students served, broken out by instructional modality; course success rates, also broken out by instructional modality; term ‑to ‑term persistence rates; share of first ‑year cohorts that pass college ‑level math and English; and program completion rates (such as earning an associate degree or certificate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - As Figure  4 shows, from 2016 ‑17 through 2018 ‑19, the share of adult students earning a high school diploma or its equivalent increased only 1.1  percentage point (before dropping by more than 4  percentage points over the next two years).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - For example, this might mean allocating a larger share of funding toward modernization projects, limiting each campus to one Proposition  2 project across all years, or capping the share of funding going toward “complete campus concept ” projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

California Community Colleges: Effects of Increases in Noncredit Course Funding Rates

Mar 30, 2017 - (Excludes share for school districts and other providers.) A Few Courses Shifted From Credit to Noncredit. A handful of the colleges we interviewed reported converting precollegiate ‑level credit courses to CDCP, though no systemwide data on such conversions is available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3635

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - The formula also deducts a student contribution from part ‑time work earnings. Specifically, the MCS calculation assumes a student works 15 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, at the state minimum wage rate, as adjusted annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

Addressing Capital Renewal at UC and CSU

Jan 5, 2023 - Under state law, CSU may only use TRP earnings for one ‑time capital expenses, including renewal. Since CSU began distributing TRP earnings in 2019 ‑20, it has allocated an average of $40  million annually to campuses for capital expenses, with distributions varying somewhat from year to year based on investment performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4657