The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As part of the 2021‑22 budget package, the Legislature and Governor agreed to add 206,800 non‑CalWORKs child care slots over a multiyear period. To date, the state has funded 129,800 additional slots—a 113.8 percent increase in non‑CalWORKs slots compared to 2020‑21 levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - The budget proposes to increase the add ‑on amount to $6,404 per student, an additional $3,252 above current law. This would increase total funding for the TK add ‑on by $746  million, for a total add ‑on cost of $1.5  billion (this includes $206  million described above and $500  million included in the 2024 ‑25 budget).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Sep 26, 2024 - The budget also modifies and adds into statute details related to the multiyear slot expansion plan. (In 2021-22, the Legislature and Governor agreed to add 206,500 child care slots by 2025-26. The 2023-24 budget package delayed fu ll implementation to 2026-27.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4932

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - For example, the state may need to add an indicator for elementary schools or change how indicators are weighted under the current system. Alternatively, the state could identify other ways to highlight high school absenteeism rates outside of the accountability system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - In addition to covering costs for additional TK students, the Governor proposes to increase the TK add ‑on funding rate. Whereas the add ‑on currently provides about $3,150 for each student, the budget would increase it to about $6,400 per student.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - (These amounts add up to the $220  million in available funding we identified earlier.) As a point of comparison for the community colleges, $501  million exceeds our projected cost for COLA and all enrollment ‑related increases in the SCFF in  2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

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

Nov 10, 2025 - Adds Funding for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program. The budget provides $30  million for the National Board Program. Similar to the funding provided for the program in 2021-22, the budget sets aside $3  million of the total to cover the fees of first-time applicants to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The Local Control Funding Formula for School Districts and Charter Schools

Jan 9, 2023 - Add ‑Ons to the Formula In addition to the main components of the LCFF, the state also included several add ‑ons to the formula. In this section, we describe three major add ‑ons. A certain subset of school districts with relatively high local property tax revenue also benefit from other LCFF add ‑ons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4661

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 budget plan maintains that expectation and adds an expectation for 2026 ‑27. Specifically, the budget plan sets forth that CSU is to grow its resident undergraduate enrollment by 10,161 FTE students, for a total associated level of 350,107 FTE students in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - Beginning in 2023-24, the add-on will annually increase at the same percentage as the statutory COLA. Unlike the existing K-3 add-on, districts cannot collectively bargain for higher TK staffing ratios.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641