The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Mandates

May 1, 2026 - Garcia) impose a reimbursable state-mandated program, beginning January 1, 2018. The mandate requires certain schools to stock 50  percent of restrooms with menstrual products (defined as tampons and sanitary napkins) at all times at no cost to students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5179

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Outcomes from standardized tests, for example, are part of the student achievement priority area, while chronic absenteeism is one of two indicators (along with the high school graduation rate) used to measure student engagement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - If the Legislature finds that additional one ‑time funding to support community schools is a high priority at that time, it could provide a specific appropriation accordingly. Background State Has Three Expanded Learning Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

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

Feb 4, 2026 - For example, the ratio of stock prices to corporate earnings (a measure of how expensive stocks are) is near historically high levels ( Figure  5 ). Investors are borrowing large sums to buy stocks, and households are more invested in the stock market than at any time in at least 70 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: Update on Local Control Funding Formula Costs

May 1, 2026 - School districts report their ADA to the state three times per year. The first report (known as “P-1 ”) covers attendance data from the beginning of the school year through December and is typically certified by the California Department of Education (CDE) in late February.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5178

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The funding and staff for these instructional activities are not part of its state administration budget.) Figure 1 Major State Administrative Activities Performed by the California  Department  of  Education Monitor Compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The Governor proposes $11.5 million one‑time Proposition 64 funding to provide child care infrastructure grants to licensed child care providers impacted by recent wildfires. The administration has yet to provide key details, such as grant amounts, the allowable uses of funding, and time lines for when funding would be awarded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Mandates [Publication Details]

May 1, 2026 - The Commission on State Mandates (the Commission) recently found two new requirements to be reimbursable state mandates: (1) offering menstrual products in public school restrooms and (2) confirming that public high school students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or California Dream Act Application.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5179

The 2026-27 Budget: Update on Local Control Funding Formula Costs [Publication Details]

May 1, 2026 - In February 2026, CDE certified P-1 data for 2025-26 and annual data for 2024-25. In addition to preliminary ADA, the P-1 data also includes preliminary estimates of total LCFF costs and other associated data. In this post, we describe our findings from the updated data and the fiscal implications of this data on the Governor’s January budget LCFF estimates for 2025-26 and 2026-27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5178