The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - TK Enrollment Has Grown 70   Percent Since 2019. In 2023 ‑24, 151,500 students across the state were enrolled in TK. This reflects an increase of 76,000 students (101  percent) from the 2021 ‑22 school year, the year prior to expansion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Sixteen campuses had freshman admission rates of 90 percent or higher in fall 2024, compared to only three campuses in fall 2019. Transfer admission rates have also increased over the past few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - As Figure  2 shows, the gap between California and the national average steadily closed from 2005 to 2019, but has remained relatively flat since 2019. The gap between the state and the national average is driven by the outcomes for economically disadvantaged students, which NAEP defines as students with family incomes below 130  percent of the federal poverty level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - We note that the department also canceled its Reimbursement System Project, a separate IT project that first received funding in 2019 ‑20. Please see the nearby box for more information on the Reimbursement System Project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - Similarly, the number of Californians who are unemployed is 25  percent higher than during the strong labor markets of 2019 and 2022. Consumer spending —as measured by inflation ‑adjusted retail sales and taxable sales —has continued to decline throughout 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

Review of the Funding Determination Process for Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools

Feb 29, 2024 - State Enacted a Moratorium on New Nonclassroom ‑Based Charter Schools in 2019, Set to Expire in 2026. Due, in part, to the concerns arising from high ‑profile cases, Chapter  486 of 2019 (A B  1505 , O ’Donnell) imposed a two ‑year moratorium on the establishment of new nonclassroom ‑based charter schools (from 2019 to 2021).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4870

Update on the Progress of the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Nov 18, 2021 - Changes to UAO Based on 2019-20 Valuation Investment Returns in 2019-20 Fell Below Actuarially Assumed Rate. Due to the unprecedented fiscal effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, CalSTRS ’ assets netted 3.9 percent returns in the 2019-20 fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4475

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

May 11, 2022 - From 2013 ‑14 through 2019 ‑20, the statewide ADA ‑to ‑enrollment ratio was an average of 95.2  percent and was stable over the period. Preliminary 2021 ‑22 data show an ADA ‑to ‑enrollment ratio of 91.4  percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4595

The 2022-23 Budget: Local Control Funding Formula

Jan 28, 2022 - For 2019 ‑20, the state provided that attendance levels would depend only on average daily attendance through February 2020. For  2020 ‑21, the state suspended the collection of attendance data and credited districts and charter schools with their 2019 ‑20  attendance levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4505

The 2021-22 Budget: The Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 18, 2020 - The June 2020 b udget plan assumed the guarantee would drop $3. 4  b illion (4. 2  p ercent) in 2019 ‑20 and $10. 2  b illion (12. 5  p ercent) in 2020 ‑ 21 r elative to the 2019 ‑ 20 l evel estimated in June 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4298