The 2021-22 Budget: School Mental Health [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4368

The 2021-22 Budget: Special Education Proposals [Publication Details]

Feb 4, 2021 - This post provides background on special education preschool and school Medi-Cal billing, describes the Governor's proposals related to these topics, details our assessments of the proposals, and offers associated recommendations for the Legislature to consider.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4345

The 2021-22 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Feb 4, 2021 - This incentive may be most likely to affect how districts address borderline cases, such as a three ‑year old with slow speech development, where it may be difficult to determine whether the child needs special intervention to catch up to peers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4345

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - First, it requires students and their parents to begin thinking about transferring for the upcoming school year in the fall of the previous school year. For a district that begins school in late August, the Januar y 1 d eadline comes nearly eight months before the start of the school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program [Publication Details]

Feb 1, 2021 - The District of Choice program is one of several laws allowing students to transfer from one school district to another school district. The program is scheduled to sunset on July 1, 2023. This evaluation, prepared at the request of the Legislature, assesses recent trends in the program and provides our recommendations regarding reauthorization.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4329

The 2021-22 Budget: Extended Learning and Academic Support

Jan 29, 2021 - We find that providing such a large amount of one-time funding to schools in one year raises several concerns: Given the uncertainty regarding school reopening, districts may have difficulty planning and spending such a large amount of funding over one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4326

The 2021-22 Budget: Extended Learning and Academic Support [Publication Details]

Jan 29, 2021 - In this post, we provide background on school closures and recent funding to address learning loss, describe the Governor’s proposal to allocate $4.6 billion to schools in spring 2021 to address student learning loss caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, assess the proposal, and describe our recommendations to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4326

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of Proposition 98 Budget Proposals [Publication Details]

Jan 25, 2021 - This handout analyzes the overall architecture of the Governor's plan for school and community college funding, including major spending proposals and underlying estimates of the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4318

The 2021-22 Budget: In-Person Instruction Grants [Publication Details]

Jan 20, 2021 - This handout provides background on school reopening in California, describes the Governor's proposal for immediate action to encourage schools to reopen for elementary students, details issues for the Legislature to consider, and offers options for the Legislature to modify the proposal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4313

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - When the state created the requirement for supplemental payments, it had anticipated a steep drop in the minimum guarantee that would affect school and community college funding for several years. The supplemental payments were intended to accelerate the recovery from this drop, with payments growing from $2.3  billion in 2021 ‑22 to more than $6  billion by 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309