The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - For decades, the state paid DDS direct care staff (also referred to as direct service professionals) according to an outdated and overly complicated rate structure that had not kept up with rising costs over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Background

Feb 2, 2016 - In this series, we refer to CalSTRS members as “teachers ” for simplicity. Full Funding a Key Goal of Pension Policy. A pension system is fully funded when assets are sufficient to cover benefits already earned by employees and retirees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3332

Evaluation of Cal Grant C Program

Apr 30, 2019 - Furthermore, only two of the top ten programs of study completed by the two most recent cohorts of Cal Grant  C recipients at CCC align with a prioritized occupation, while four of the top ten programs are not even considered CTE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4020

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - Three ‑ and four ‑year old children are generally eligible for State Preschool if their family earns at or below the state median income ($109,904 annual income for a family of three and $127,338 annual income for a family of four).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2017-18 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 9, 2017 - At the end of 2013 ‑14, CalSTRS estimated that its main investment fund was more than $70  billion short of the amount needed to pay for benefits earned through that date. This shortfall is referred to as an unfunded liability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3549

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - (A similar model, known as “early college high school, ” is a partnership between public schools and a CCC, CSU, or UC campus that allows students to earn a diploma and up to two years of college credit in four years or less.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - (For the rest of this brief, we refer to use the term “coaches ” to refer to both coaches and specialists.) State Has Provided One ‑Time Funding for Literacy Coaches. In 2022 ‑23, the state created the Literacy Coach and Reading Specialist (LCRS) program and provided one ‑time Proposition  98 General Fund for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2017-18 Budget: County Offices of Education and The Minimum State Aid Provision

Feb 10, 2017 - In 2013-14 (the first year of implementation), $333 million in minimum state aid counted within COEs ’ LCFF allotments and $30 million was provided on top of the LCFF allotments. Cost of Minimum State Aid Provision Increasing Over Time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3554

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

Feb 4, 2026 - The June 2025 budget alluded to this law in its explanation for the $1.9  billion settle ‑up delay in 2024 ‑25, and the Governor ’s budget makes a similar reference to explain the proposed delay in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - Do students who earn an associate degree for transfer (ADT) at a community college end up taking fewer total units to earn a bachelor ’s degree than students who transfer without an ADT? Are students receiving Cal Grant competitive awards more likely to enroll and graduate from college than those eligible students who just missed the cut ‑off for getting awards?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409