The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As a condition of receiving CCDF, the state must comply with a number of requirements, such as providing some matching funding as well as spending at least 12 percent of CCDF funds on quality improvement activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

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

Mar 18, 2026 - Given the current condition of the state budget, the state is not positioned to provide discretionary, ongoing non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund increases as was done for other recent reorganization efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Switching programs to enrollment ‑based funding could indirectly affect the guarantee, but only under two specific conditions. First, it would need to affect year ‑over ‑year attendance growth. For example, if the change caused attendance rates to decline over several years, the annual attendance adjustment in those years would be lower than it would have been otherwise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100