The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - The Governor also proposes smaller ongoing augmentations for various targeted purposes, including Calbright College, the Healthy School Food Pathways program, the Common Cloud Data Platform, and credit for prior learning.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2026 - This brief analyzes the Governor’s budget proposals for the California Community Colleges. It covers apportionments, enrollment growth, Calbright College, and various other proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Under this time line, the administration estimates BPPE would make annual payments of $1.9  million from 2026-27 through 2031-32, with those payments totaling $11.5  million (including interest) across the six-year period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - The Governor ’s proposed base increase for UC clouds transparency and accountability, as the funds are not earmarked for specific purposes. UC ’s 2026 ‑27 Budget Plan for Current Operations , presented to the Board of Regents in November 2025, outlines UC ’s spending priorities, but the amount requested is higher than proposed by the Governor.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The Legislature, for example, could consider providing CSU and UC with base increases more in line with the current CCC COLA rate of 2.41  percent. Alternatively, the Legislature could eliminate the base increases for UC and CSU altogether, thereby making the state ’s structural deficit more manageable to address and increasing the chances that core programs could be sustained moving forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112