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

Mar 18, 2026 - State law requires the SBE to meet at least six times per year, and these meetings are subject to open meeting laws. The SBE also has several committees and advisory groups that focus on specific areas such as curriculum, charter schools, special education, and workforce pathways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Programs That Can Generate More Than One Unit of ADA Per Student. In general, a student cannot generate more than one unit of ADA from attending school for a full academic year. However, state law provides exceptions for some specific programs —such as juvenile court schools and Extended School Year services for special education students —that operate longer than a traditional 180 ‑day school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - In recent years, California made several changes intended to comply with changes to federal rules. For example, the 2025‑26 budget provided $30 million to support the transition to paying providers prospectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - Trailer legislation allows any unallocated funding to be rolled over across fiscal years, which will likely result in hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus funding being available for the program in the initial years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

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

Feb 4, 2026 - We analyzed previous forecasts and found that, for current ‑year revenue estimates, the May forecast is typically within about 4  percent of the year ’s final revenue collections. (The range of uncertainty for the budget year is more than twice as large.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110