The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - In 2024 ‑25, CSU began addressing this situation by reallocating existing enrollment slots from campuses under their 2023 ‑24 targets to those exceeding their 2023 ‑24 targets. Effectively, this reallocation moved funding internally within the CSU system to help support more enrollment growth at growing campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - From 2021 ‑22 through 2023 ‑24, the state has provided a total of $865  million in one ‑time funding to support various nutrition initiatives. These augmentations include: KIT Funds ($750   Million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

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

Feb 13, 2025 - State Reduced LREBG in 2023 ‑24 to Address Budget Shortfall. The state faced a revenue shortfall in 2023 ‑24, accompanied by a drop in Proposition  98 funding for schools. To help address the shortfall, the June 2023 budget implemented a $1.1  billion (14.3  percent) reduction to the LREBG.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Based on 2023 ‑24 attendance —the data used to calculate 2024 ‑25 allocations —the proposed $435  million in additional funding would allow for increasing the number of Tier 1 districts without affecting Tier 2 rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - This funding was available through 2023 ‑24. 2023 ‑24 Spending Plan. The spending plan provided $12.7  million ($12.2  million General Fund) one ‑time funding to support continued planning efforts for the IT project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, 151,500 students across the state were enrolled in TK. This reflects an increase of 76,000 students (101  percent) from the 2021 ‑22 school year, the year prior to expansion. As another point of comparison, this reflects an increase of 62,600 students (70  percent) from 2019 ‑20, the year prior to the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Since 2023 ‑24, the Legislature has addressed a cumulative total of $82  billion in budget problems, but even including the withdrawal for 2025 ‑26, has only used about half of the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - In 2023 ‑24, 132 grantees (school districts, charter schools, COEs, and ROCPs) received funding from both CTEIG and K ‑12 SWP. This represents 71  percent of the K ‑12 SWP grantees and 32  percent of CTEIG grantees.
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