The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The Governor’s budget proposes to reduce funding for General Child Care slots by $98 million relative to the 2025‑26 budget package. These reductions are mainly due to a decline in federal and Proposition 64 funding in 2025‑26 and 2026‑27 and would eliminate funding for approximately 4,200 slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - The risks for 2025 ‑26, however, are still significant. The state will not have complete tax collection data for 2025 ‑26 before adopting the June budget. Moreover, complex accrual policies could assign future revenue gains or losses to 2025 ‑26 after the year ends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - In 2025 ‑26, the state increased funding to $4.6  billion and made several programmatic changes. One goal of the funding increase was to ensure that 2025 ‑26 Tier 2 rates would be no less than $1,579 per EL/LI student.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

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

Mar 18, 2026 - All except one of these studies (the 2025 report by Policy Analysis for California Education) were overseen by boards or commissions established by the state to make findings and recommendations on governance and other education ‑related issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - In 2025, 108 (out of over 900) school districts were assigned the lowest performance level in chronic absenteeism for their total student population, while another 388 school districts were assigned the lowest performance level for at least one subgroup.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100