The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23 the state provided an additional $600  million for KIT. Roughly $350  million of this amount was distributed to about 1,000 LEAs that opted into the funds. These funds were distributed proportionally based on the number of meals served.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

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

Mar 18, 2026 - Despite these calls for reform, the state continues to operate with the same basic structure it established more than 100 years ago. The Governor ’s proposal provides an opportunity to consider structural changes that would address some of these longstanding critiques.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - All Other Spending Lower by $600 Million. Across the rest of the budget, the administration’s estimates of baseline spending (for example, for caseload growth, federal reimbursements, and statutory cost increases) are lower than ours by $600 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Teacher Support ($100   Million). In 2021 ‑22, the state provided $100  million Proposition  98 General Fund for a competitive grant that LEAs could use to increase the number of highly qualified State Preschool and TK  teachers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - The remaining $100  million was available for grants of up to $100,000 to establish CCAP agreements. As of February 2025, CDE has awarded 185 grants for middle college and early college high schools, totaling $46  million, and awarded 877 grants for CCAP agreements totaling $88  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Sep 26, 2024 - A total of $100  million remains available for the program. Other Actions Makes Statutory Changes Related to Alternative Reimbursement Rate Structure. The state is in the process of obtaining approval from the federal government to use an alternative reimbursement rate structure that is not based on regional market rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4932

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - Specifically, the budget proposes $500  million for infill housing development, $300  million for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program, $100  million to build housing on excess state sites, and $100  million to repurpose existing commercial buildings for housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Provides $100   Million for National Board Program. The Governor proposes $100  million in one ‑time Proposition  98 funding for the National Board Program. Of the total amount, $90  million is to continue awarding annual grants of $5,000 to teachers who achieve the National Board certification and teach in a priority school.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

May 16, 2022 - The largest of these include $1.8  billion (in 2025 ‑26) for the proposed expansion of Medi ‑Cal to all income ‑eligible Californians and nearly $600  million for a State Supplementary Payment grant increase, according to administration estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - The budget package provides $600  million one time for local education agencies (LEAs) —school districts, charter schools, and COEs —to upgrade their kitchen infrastructure and increase school capacity to prepare fresh meals on-site.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641