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 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - Providers can earn the 10   percent portion of the rate model from January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 by enrolling in DDS ’s new Provider Directory. DDS is in the process of establishing the performance metric(s) that providers will have to satisfy after June  30,  2026 to earn the 10   percent portion of  the  rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - The district could provide this training in person or have its employees watch a prerecorded webinar. 2021 ‑22 Budget Provided $150   Million for Kitchen Infrastructure Upgrades and Staff Training. The 2021 ‑22 budget provided $150  million one ‑time Proposition  98 to local education agencies (LEAs) —school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education —for kitchen
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Specifically, the program is intended to increase the number of CTE ‑aligned pathways for high ‑wage, high ‑demand jobs that incorporate A ‑G course requirements and/or provide students with an opportunity to earn college credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: Background

Feb 2, 2016 - That is, the assets held by the fund at any one time have been insufficient to cover benefits earned to that date. As of the most recent estimates, CalSTRS would need an additional $72.7 billion in its investment fund to pay for teacher pension benefits earned as of the end of 2013-1 4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3332

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Teachers can earn these awards for up to five years and a maximum of $25,000. The remaining $10  million is to cover the fees charged to teachers who are starting the National Board certification process for the first time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Feb 4, 2026 - For example, the ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings (a measure of how expensive stocks are) is near historically high levels ( Figure  5 ). Investors are borrowing large sums to buy stocks, and households are more invested in the stock market than at any time in at least 70 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

CalSTRS Funding Update

Jul 19, 2018 - The law makes districts responsible for the unfunded liability created by changes to pension benefits and contribution rates adopted after 1990, but only for benefits earned through 2013-14. (Responsibility for a small amount of the unfunded liability that is associated with changes made after 1990 for benefits earned after 2013-14 remains unassigned to either the state or districts.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3873

A Review of the CalSTRS Funding Plan: CalSTRS Funding Plan Relies on Abstract Calculation

Feb 2, 2016 - Because teachers and districts contribute a fixed percentage of payroll, a different choice to assume that teachers would have earned higher salaries would have resulted in more teacher and district contributions to CalSTRS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3333

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Oct 25, 2021 - Existing law establishes a process for LEAs to earn attendance-based funding when they must close schools or experience significant attendance declines due to an emergency (such as a fire, flood, or epidemic).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4466