The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - A district that has constrained facilities or challenges hiring TK teachers, but could more easily hire instructional aides, likely would find the first option more  feasible. Governor ’s Proposed Add ‑On Likely Higher Than Costs of Requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

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

Feb 4, 2026 - Several signs suggest the stock market is overvalued, and a significant drop most likely would reduce state revenues by tens of billions of dollars. The state, however, cannot predict the timing of such a decline.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Like other state offices, the SPI can serve up to two terms. The SPI ’s primary responsibility is managing CDE (described below). The law also makes the SPI a nonvoting “executive officer ” of the SBE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

Improving Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in California

Sep 21, 2016 - This enrollment –based approach ensures that funding is linked with students, new state funding is provided at comparable rates for students receiving comparable services, and funding for the SSS changes gradually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3498

Evaluation of Cal Grant C Program

Apr 30, 2019 - Like the Cal Grant  C program, these programs are designed to benefit students enrolling in CTE programs that are linked with gainful employment opportunities. Whereas the Cal Grant  C program serves roughly 10,000 students annually, these other programs by comparison are intended to support systemic improvements impacting CTE students on a much larger scale.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4020

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of Special Education “Disconnect”

Mar 1, 2017 - In short, SELPAs did not ultimately experience pro rata reductions in 2013 ‑14 and 2014 ‑15, but most SELPAs did experience them in 2015 ‑16 and likely will continue to experience them moving forward absent any further state action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3598

The 2019-20 Budget: Proposition 98 Analysis

Feb 13, 2019 - By helping to keep funding in line with cost increases, an annual COLA also serves to promote high block grant participation —reducing any incentive an LEA might have for returning to the traditional claims process, with all its drawbacks for both the state and LEAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3930

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - The ELPAC assesses English proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in line with the English language development standards for each grade level adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

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

Feb 14, 2023 - Given that only 23  percent of school districts reported having enough TK teachers, dropping to the lower ratio likely will make implementation more  challenging. Recommend Rejecting Additional Staffing Requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

K-12 Education in Context

Jan 26, 2018 - Compared to the student population, teachers are more likely to be white (66  percent of teachers compared to 24  percent of students) and less likely to be Hispanic (21  percent of teachers compared to 55  percent of students).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3736