The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - One way they routinely do this is by providing opportunities for faculty professional development. A few of these existing opportunities are: UC faculty have access to teaching and learning centers where they receive support related to course redesign and creating more inclusive pedagogy to improve student outcomes, including in STEM courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - LAO Comments Underlying Revenue Estimates Have Downside Risk. The Governor ’s estimates of the Proposition  98 minimum guarantee are based on revenue projections that do not account for the risk of a stock market downturn.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - As of the Governor ’s budget, all but two of these projects were scheduled to complete working drawings in 2026-27, with the remaining projects expected to do so by August 2027. Assuming no project delays emerge this spring, we have no concerns with the proposed funding for these continuing projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - Under the revamped program, students still do not have to demonstrate financial need. Moreover, students still are subject to the original income and asset cap rules. In 2025‑26, the maximum annual household income for dependent students to qualify for an MCS award is $234,000 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - SUG generally covers the full cost of tuition for students who have financial need (based upon a federal calculation) but do not receive tuition coverage und er the Cal Grant program (such as students in their fifth or sixth year who have used up their four years of Cal Grant eligibility and some graduate students).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Consistent with historical legislative practice, as well as current practice for CCC, we recommend the Legislature fund enrollment growth at CSU and UC apart from and on top of any base increase, as doing so provides greater transparency and accountability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Since then, revenues in the BPPE Fund have been roughly flat in unadjusted dollars. Adjusting for inflation, revenues were 18  percent lower in 2024-25 than in 2018-19. BPPE Fund Has a Structural Deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - UC Reserve Levels Generally Have Tracked With Broader Fiscal Factors. As Figure  6 shows, UC core fund balances as a share of its annual core fund expenditures have been as low as 1.8  percent in 2008 ‑09 and as high as 23  percent in 2012 ‑13.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143