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

Nov 14, 2025 - Provides Funding to Reform and Automate Systems Based on New Rate Structure. The budget provides $21.8  million in one-time federal funding to reform and automate state and local data systems to allow for the implementation of new child care provider rates based on an alternative methodology.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Given the alternative methodology and a new collective bargaining agreement may not be finalized prior to the June  15 deadline to pass a budget, the Legislature may want to plan for costs associated with the new rates in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Spending and Tax Expenditure Proposals New Spending Proposals of Nearly $600   Million. The Governor ’s budget includes $570  million in new discretionary General Fund spending in 2025 ‑26. After 2025 ‑26, these proposals would add about $300 million in ongoing spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Nov 17, 2023 - The administration intends to resume adding new slots in 2024 ‑25, reaching the overall 200,000  new slots goal by 2026 ‑27. Reduces Proposition  64 Funding Levels. In November 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64 , which legalized the nonmedical use of cannabis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - Assembly Bill  110 provided CDE new authority to issue temporary rate increases to contractors if funding was available within the State Preschool budget appropriation. 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.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - This means that the 2023 ‑24 funding levels technically reflect costs of all 146,500 new slots being filled by July 1, 2023. However, the administration acknowledges that all 146,500 new slots will not be fully filled by the end of 2022 ‑23 and providers will continue to work on filling all new slots throughout 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - How does the new governance structure eliminate duplication or overlap of government services? How does the new governance structure align with recommendations of the master plan? What is the total implementation and ongoing cost of the new governance structure?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Given the magnitude of the proposed backfill for CDE, it does appear that D SS would likely have more funding and positions under the Governor ’s proposal than required to address its new workload. Since there is no new workload across both departments, a cost neutral shift would be reasonable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

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

Jan 13, 2020 - In some cases the administration ’s proposed change reorganizes existing state functions into a new entity, but in other cases the administration appears to intend to begin providing new state services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - In future years, the Legislature could decide how many new slots to approve based on the take ‑up in 2019 ‑20. Keep Work Requirement and Give New Slots to Providers Operating at Least a 10 ‑Hour Day.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956