The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - BPPE ’s special fund has a longstanding structural deficit, with expenditures exceeding revenues annually since 2014-15. The Governor ’s budget provides $10  million one-time General Fund for BPPE. The appropriation is intended to mitigate BPPE ’s structural deficit by allowing it to repay a recent special fund loan it received to cover litigation costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - A Few Core Principles Could Guide Changes to the SPI ’s Role. The Governor ’s proposal is an opportunity for the Legislature to consider many changes to the SPI ’s role and duties. The previous governance studies and the state ’s experience with its current governance structure contain several lessons that could guide a redesign of the position.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - As Figure  1 shows, Learning Lab ’s ongoing funding has fluctuated somewhat over time. In 2024-25, the state reduced Learning Lab ’s ongoing General Fund to $5.5  million. Additionally, in 2024-25, the state restructured OPR and split it into two new offices: the Governor ’s Office of Service and Community Engagement and the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - Because we find LCI ’s funding requests to be justified, opting to provide less funding for some or all of these proposals would come with trade-offs. For example, lack of funding could limit the state ’s CEQA guidance capacity, delay or interrupt the implementation of some of LCI ’s programs, and result in noncompliance with statutory requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - While modernization projects account for 84  percent of the facility needs identified in CCC ’s most recent five-year capital outlay plan, they receive only 65  percent of funding each year under the Chancellor ’s Office ’s scoring system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Over 1,200 credit agreements have been approved by GO-Biz since the program ’s inception. Fiscal Effect of Program Is Variable. Figure  1 shows the value of credits claimed each year since the program ’s inception in 2014.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Governor ’s Budget Lacks a Way to Assess the Impact of Proposed Policy Change. The  Governor ’s stated goal for his proposals is to reduce time and cost for developers to build their capital stack and construct projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - Chapter  4 of 2016 (S B  3 , Leno) has gradually increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour. Under S B  3 , the statewide minimum wage will continue to increase by up to 3.5  percent each year, depending on inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - This post provides background on the state ’s recent efforts to identify efficiencies to achieve budget savings and our office ’s comments and recommendations concerning the progress of the administration ’s efforts to reduce state costs through this contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2026-27 Budget: California Highway Patrol Proposals

Mar 6, 2026 - Data do not seem to support the department ’s explanation for why it is unable to use salary savings to cover some costs as it has in the past. As shown in Figure  2, the department ’s uniformed officer vacancy rate including temporary positions, is still well above the pre-pandemic levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5152