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

Jan 13, 2025 - These include funds for water recycling, wildfire prevention activities at state parks, and dam safety activities. The proposal would then provide a like amount of funding from Proposition  4, the climate bond approved by voters in November 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Nov 14, 2025 - Current law requires families deemed eligible for subsidized child care to receive those services for at least 24 months before having their eligibility recertified. The budget modifies this requirement so that when families already receiving child care services add a child to the family size and request services for the child, eligibility is not recertified until the new chil d has received at least 12 months of services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Legislature May Not Have Time to Review Alternative Methodology Details Before Passing Budget. Although DSS is required to set rates based on the alternative methodology by July  1,  2025, the department ’s time line for sharing the details with the Legislature is unclear at this time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - The budget package includes supplemental reporting language for DSS to provide, on or before March  1, 2024, an estimate of child care program funds that may go unspent by the end of 2023 ‑24 and what amount of unspent funds cannot be reappropriated and would revert back to the state or federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - The intent of this new authority was to allow CDE to fully expend temporary COVID-19 relief funds before they were set to expire at the end of September 2023. CDE issued two types of temporary payments under this new authorit y.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - Income-eligible children with disabilities enrolled above these targets would receive priority before other four-year olds. Provides Additional Funds for Inclusive Early Education Expansion Grants . The budget provides $250  million Proposition  98 General Fund for one-time competitive grants to school districts and other child care and preschool providers for the purpose of increasing access to inclusive early education programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

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

Feb 14, 2023 - These students do not generate state funding until their fifth birthday and must turn five before the end of the school year. State Also Made Recent Programmatic Changes to TK. The 2021 ‑22 budget agreement also included a new class size requirement for TK —specifically , requiring that school districts maintain an average TK classroom enrollment of no more than 24 students at each school site.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

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

Feb 28, 2019 - Fifth, some parents who try to follow through on referrals become discouraged before their children receive services. In some instances, this is because the evaluation process itself is time ‑consuming or difficult to understand.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3954

A Review of Child Care and Preschool Program Flexibilities in Certain Counties

May 13, 2021 - This would allow the state to test new policies at a small scale before implementing the changes statewide. For example, the state could implement a different family fee schedule in pilot counties a year prior to making the new family fee schedule statewide policy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - Given these challenges, we think new slots realistically could not be used before January 1, 2020. Additional Facilities a Key Issue. Accommodating new State Preschool slots is likely to entail various challenges, including finding and paying for additional facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956