California's Education System: A 2019 Guide [Publication Details]

Feb 6, 2019 - California's Education System: A 2019 Guide [Publication Details] California's Education System: A 2019 Guide Format: PDF Description: This report is a visual guide that covers every major area of California’s education system, with chapters on early education, K-12 education, adult precollegiate education, undergraduate education, graduate education, and education facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3924

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

Nov 14, 2025 - The budget modifies this requirement so that when families already receiving child care services add a child to the family size and request services for the child, eligibility is not recertified until the new chil d has received at least 12 months of services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

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

Feb 14, 2023 - Maintains Staffing Ratios at 1 Adult for Every 12 Students. The budget also includes an increase of $165  million to reflect higher costs of maintaining an average of 1 adult for every 12 students in TK classrooms.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - Figure  2 summarizes the total allocation California received specifically for child care. Figure 2 Overview of Federal COVID ‑19 Relief Funding for Child Care California Allocations (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

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

Jan 13, 2025 - In this report, we provide a brief summary of the Governor ’s budget based on our initial review as of January 12. In the coming weeks, we will analyze the plan in more detail and release many additional issue ‑specific budget analyses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care

May 14, 2020 - COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care COVID-19 COVID-19: Federal and State Actions Affecting K-12 Education and Child Care The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has required schools to respond to unprecedented challenges —shifting from traditional educational settings and routines to focusing on distance learning and student meal distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4231

Recent Congressional Action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

Jan 23, 2018 - Recent Congressional Action Authorizes State Share of 12  Percent. Recent Congressional action appropriates funding for CHIP through FFY 2022 ‑23. As shown in Figure  1, the state will pay the lower 12  percent cost share for FFY 2017 ‑18 and 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3734

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - As Figure  2 shows, the 2022-23 budget package adds $2  billion ongoing for State Preschool and TK programs. Proposition  98 covers the bulk of the increase, followed by non-Proposition  98 General Fund and federal funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - The state provides a statutorily required annual COLA —the same rate provided to K ‑12 education programs —to the SRR. (The RMR does not have a statutory COLA and is adjusted at the Legislature ’s discretion.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - School districts can enroll students in a TK program if the student has their fifth birthday between September 2 and December   2 o f that school year. Similar to all other K ‑12 students, TK students generate attendance ‑based funding through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350