The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - As discussed in the “Core Operations ” section, the state budget plan reduces General Fund support for CSU by a net of $122  million. No funding is provided to cover the marginal cost of new resident enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - After S B  639 was enacted, the 2022 ‑23  spending plan allocated $8.4  million ($5.1  million General Fund) one ‑time available over three years for DDS to establish a service model focused on individuals transitioning out of subminimum wage or recently graduating from high school.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - In  2022 ‑23, the state began implementing a plan to make all four ‑year ‑old children eligible for TK. The  Governor ’s budget provides $1.1   billion to fund the final year of this expansion in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Chapter  1003 of 2024 (A B  1113 , McCarty) requires the California Department of Education to collect, starting in 2025 ‑26, enrollment in each of the state ’s three expanded learning programs. This collection would be made through the state ’s longitudinal data system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - Trailer legislation related to the 2021 ‑22 budget package required that, beginning in 2022 ‑23, all LEAs provide one free breakfast and one free lunch per school day to any student requesting a meal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Beginning in 2022 ‑23, districts must maintain, on average, 1 adult for every 12 TK students at each school site. In 2024 ‑25, districts will receive $3,077 per TK ADA as an add ‑on to the LCFF base grant to cover the associated costs of this requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Chapter  48 of 2023 (S B  114 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) requires that schools administer screenings for reading difficulties to students in kindergarten through second grade starting in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, the state provided $200  million for a competitive grant program aimed at increasing programs that provide high school students with access to college level courses. Of this amount, $100  million was available for grants of up to $250,000 to plan and start up middle and early college high schools on K ‑12 school sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - For example, in 2023-24, about 23  percent of the roughly 40,000 English learners in TK were not low-income, and would not have generated supplemental and concentration grant funding if they were not determined to be English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The Governor ’s budget does not propose any significant policy changes to the already ‑adopted budget solutions, but some of the assumed savings are now lower —totaling $23  billion for 2025 ‑26. Two key areas where these savings have eroded are in the managed care organization (MCO) tax package and reductions to state operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951