The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - For paid and reduced ‑priced meals, the state provides funds to match the combined state and federal rate for free meals. As   Figure  1 shows, free, reduced, and paid meals generate the same total reimbursement for LEAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - This form of compensation is tied to the company ’s stock price, so it rises when stock prices rise. State Suspended the Proposition   98 Guarantee in 2023 ‑24. The June 2024 budget plan suspended the guarantee in 2023 ‑24 and approved $98.5   billion in funding for schools and community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - Students who do not meet income requirements typically pay full price for school meals. The federal and state nutrition programs then reimburse schools based on the number of meals they serve. For example, in 2019 ‑20, school districts that participated in the federal National School Lunch Program generally received $3.50  per free lunch, $3.10 per reduced ‑price lunch, and 41  cents per paid lunch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - For example, the ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings (a measure of how expensive stocks are) is near historically high levels ( Figure  5 ). Investors are borrowing large sums to buy stocks, and households are more invested in the stock market than at any time in at least 70 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2018-19 Budget: 2018-19 COLA for K-14 Education Programs

Apr 30, 2018 - Background Annual COLA Determined by Price Index for State and Local Governments. The state budget typically provides a COLA for certain school and community college programs. State law links this COLA to a national price index developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (a division of the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3816

Update on COLA for K-14 Education Programs

Apr 28, 2017 - Background Statutory COLA Determined by Price Index for State and Local Governments. State law specifies that certain school and community college programs are to receive an annual COLA. The statutory COLA rate is tied to a national price index developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (a division of the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3657

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - Trailer legislation specifies that EL counts in TK will be calculated by applying a fact or to TK enrollment equal to the share of ELs enrolled in kindergarten who are not eligible for free or reduced-price meals and not a foster youth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - Although most economic forecasters expect price inflation to moderate by the end of 2022 ‑23, evidence suggests there is a risk inflation could remain above the historical average for an extended period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648

Final EdBudget Tables (2015)

Oct 19, 2015 - Create Alternative Pricing Models for Summer Session Three campuses are to create alternative pricing models for the summer session to provide an incentive for more students to enroll during that term.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3299

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - As a point of comparison, 59  p ercent of all students statewide qualify for free or reduced ‑price meals. (The program data technically include all students —regardless of income —who are homeless, migrant, or foster youth, or who come from families in which neither parent received a high school diploma.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329