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

Jan 13, 2020 - Budget Condition Over the Multiyear In this section we describe the administration ’s estimates of the condition of the General Fund budget over the longer term under the Governor ’s 2020 ‑ 21 b udget proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Mar 16, 2017 - Quality Improvement Activities In this section, we provide background on a federal requirement that states spend a certain amount each year on improving the quality of their child care and preschool programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3618

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Consistent with the actions taken last June as part of the 2020 ‑ 21 b udget package, the Governor ’s budget proposes to shift $ 3   b illion in local assistance from CDE to DSS. Figure  2 shows the programs and associated funding that would be shifted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals [Publication Details]

Mar 16, 2017 - The report has six main sections. In the first section, we provide background on child care and preschool programs in California. In the second section, we provide an overview of the Governor’s child care and preschool proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3618

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - CalWORKs Child Care In this section, we provide background on CalWORKs child care. We then describe the Governor ’s proposal to augment CalWORKs child care funding by $ 103  m illion to reflect increases in caseload and cost of care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

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

Apr 29, 2021 - In the following sections, we discuss the major elements of federal relief for K-12 education and child care and describe how the state has used some funds in 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21. K-12 Education In this section, we provide more detail on the funding and spending requirements for schools associated with each of the three federal relief packages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Figure  2 summarizes the budget solutions that this section describes in detail. The Governor ’s budget solutions focus on spending. They total $13.6  billion and represent nearly three ‑quarters of the total solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - Trailer legislat ion also shifts numerous support programs to DSS, including Resource and Referral, Local Planning Councils, and quality improvement projects. State Preschool will continue to be administered by CDE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Consistent with this guidance, in this section, we describe three policies related to child care and State Preschool that we recommend the Legislature revisit. These policies may no longer align with the Legislature ’s key priorities given recent changes in child care and State Preschool funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - In addition, it is possible that the work of the new Early Childhood Policy Council could inform potential changes to the state ’s child care system. Making significant changes to the administration of early childhood development programs before the state considers major reforms to these programs would be premature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167