The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - BPPE ’s main responsibilities include licensing private postsecondary institutions to operate in California, monitoring their business practices, and resolving student complaints. Currently, it oversees more than 1,500 private postsecondary campuses located throughout the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - As part of this initiative, CSU has held systemwide convenings for faculty and administrators to share best practices. CCC faculty receive a certain number of flex days so they can take time outside of teaching to pursue professional development activities, including developing new course designs, tools, and materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

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: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - For example, the proposal to provide $219,000 in 2026-27 and 2027-28 to update CEQA exemption guidance for sustainable transportation projects pursuant to Chapter  742 of 2025 (SB  71, Wiener) matches the estimates from the Assembly Appropriations Committee analysis published when the legislation passed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

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

Mar 18, 2026 - A large ‑scale governance change will require many smaller changes to existing laws and administrative practices. The Legislature and administration will need to address these details to ensure a seamless transition to a new system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - A species native to California, Chinook salmon are important to commercial and recreational fishing, central to many tribes ’ cultural practices and traditional sustenance, and integral to the state ’s biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Recent Caseload Growth Has Matched Historic Highs. As seen in Figure  3 , IHSS caseload has grown significantly since 2013. Despite slower caseload growth between 2016 ‑17 and 2020 ‑21 (the caseload continued to grow during this period, just at a slower than usual rate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The APD process allows the state to request a 90  percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50  percent match) to design, develop, and install IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - This practice muddies the Legislature ’s understanding of the state ’s fiscal health because it assumes a lower level of spending in the budget year than actually will occur. If the Legislature directs the administration to identify efficiencies in the future, we recommend that the Legislature build in only limited assumed savings resulting from such an exercise in the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - In practice, this means the state could see continued but weakened revenue growth for some time after a correction before the outlook turns clearly negative. Revenue Impact Also Depends on the Type of Downturn.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852