The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Recommend Signaling More Realistic Budget Expectations for CSU and UC in 2026 ‑27. To balance the budget in 2024 ‑25, the state applied small General Fund reductions to CSU and UC. At  the same time, the state provided a clear signal to CSU and UC that they were to begin planning for deeper base reductions in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - When the state has added new authorized positions, it has added associated funding. For example, in 2023‑24, the state augmented CSAC’s state operations budget $1.1 million for the additional positions, along with a few hundreds of thousands of dollars for other things (new high school toolkits and additional Cash for College efforts).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The Governor has signaled interest in changing the state ’s reserve policy by: (1)  increasing the cap on BSA required deposits from 10  percent of General Fund taxes to 20  percent of General Fund taxes, and (2)  excluding the state ’s reserve deposits from the state appropriations limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - Adding a sunset date would provide the Legislature the opportunity to reevaluate the fee structure and make modifications. Historically, the state has set a sunset date of January 1, five years after the account is reauthorized.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - Of  the 257 beds, 252 were renovated existing beds and 5 were to be new added beds. Total Enrollment Estimated to Decline in 2024 ‑25. Figure  1 shows CLSF enrollment over the past 25 years. Since 2000, CLSF enrollment peaked in 2009 at 1,336 full ‑time equivalent (FTE) students, then fell notably from 2011 ‑12 to 2015 ‑16, before leveling off for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - State Added Juvenile Justice Component to Program in 2022 ‑23. The 2022 ‑23 Budget Act provided $15  million ongoing to add a new component to the Rising Scholars Network that focuses on youth impacted by the juvenile justice system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005