Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Early college high schools partner with a community college or public university that allows students to earn a diploma and up to two years of college credit by graduation.) The remaining $100  million was available for grants of up to $100,000 to establish CCAP agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5004

Child Care Funding Rates and Transition to an Alternative Methodology [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 On Human Services and Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 On Education Finance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4973

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Though the budget plan does not contain any enrollment growth funding for CSU in 2025 ‑26, it maintains provisional language permitting the Director of Finance to reduce CSU funding for each student below the expected 2025 ‑26 level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - Provisional language included in the budget since 2022 ‑23 allows the Department of Finance to augment funding for school nutrition if expenditures are projected to exceed the amount budgeted. In each of the past three years, the state has made current ‑year augmentations to account for shortfalls in budgeted funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The department has stated that it plans to submit its findings from the 2025 stakeholder outreach and a revised fiscal estimate to CDT and the Department of Finance for  approval. We recommend that the Legislature clarify in budget hearings whether the department intends to update its PAL documents (which the Legislature receives) as part of this process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The 2024 ‑25 budget package assumed that the Department of Finance would reduce state operations expenditures through two unallocated reductions across most state departments. These included (1)  a $1.5  billion ($760  million General Fund) reduction through the permanent and ongoing reduction of 10,000 vacant positions and the associated funding and (2)  a reduction to General Fund operating expenditures of $2.2  billion in 2024 ‑25 and $2.8  billion in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951