The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Funds Initiatives to Improve Coordination in Workforce Development. The 2025-26 budget includes funding for two initiatives, one in the LWDA and one in the Government Operations Agency (GovOps), to improve coordination between the state ’s workforce development and education agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Expand Basic and Secondary Education Capacity. The proposal includes eight teacher positions, which would allow CDCR to expand basic and secondary education capacity by 432 students, roughly doubling capacity.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - However, we recommend an alternative mai ntenance payment that pays only for specific evidence-based practices that will improve public safety and does so in ways that are more likely to generate state savings —two of the key goals of the original program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking. We will continue to monitor Proposition  36 implementation and the prison population and make recommendations based on the updated information available at the May Revision, including the administration ’s revised estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991