The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget includes nearly $3  billion in reductions, the largest of which is withdrawing a discretionary principal payment on state ’s unemployment insurance loan (which otherwise is paid by employers ’ payroll taxes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The Local Control Funding Formula for School Districts and Charter Schools

Jan 9, 2023 - The state must also must provide at least $200 per student from the EPA to all school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education and at least $100 per full ‑time equivalent student to community college districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4661

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - Local Property Tax Estimates Reflect Trends in the Housing Market. Growth in property tax revenue is linked with growth in the housing market, but this growth typically lags the market by a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - This includes an increase to the county operations grant, which provides flexible funding for COEs and is intended to support regional services to school districts. Only COEs that are funded at their target LCFF entitlement will receive additional funding through the increase in the county operations grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - Specifically, SAL requirements can only be met with: Tax Reductions or Tax Refunds. The first way the Legislature can allocate revenues in order to comply with the SAL is to reduce proceeds of taxes, for example, by reducing tax rates, increasing tax credits, or returning funds to taxpayers through tax refunds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2022-23 Budget: Update on K-12 Student Attendance

May 11, 2022 - The  counties that have experienced the largest ADA declines during the pandemic are small rural counties located in the Sierras and Northern California. Among more populous counties, San  Francisco and Los Angeles Counties have had the largest declines (11.4  percent and 11.1  percent,  respectively).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4595

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These trends will be even more severe in some inland counties. For example, in Fresno County, the historical trends of five days of extreme heat per year are projected to increase to 29 days annually between 2035 and 2064 and 43 days annually between 2070 and 2099.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Climate Change Impacts Across California - K-12 Education

Apr 5, 2022 - The Legislature also could consider funding emergency management planning grants for districts and county offices of education (COEs) —specifically those that face the greatest risk and/or might have less capacity to prepare and respond to climate threats without state assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4586

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - Each consortium, in turn, awards grants to school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education on a competitive basis. Requires that grantees partner with a community college develop CTE opportunities and career pathways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - Between 2001 and 2004, the state funded the Teacher Recruitment Incentive Program which established six county offices of education (COEs) as regional teacher recruitment centers to recruit teachers for low ‑performing schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556