The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As a result of the pandemic, State Preschool enrollment experienced a significant decline of roughly 65,000 students in 2020 (Figure 3). While enrollment has increased since 2020, it remains significantly below pre‑pandemic levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - For example, our November General Fund revenue estimates for 2026 ‑27 were about $20  billion lower than the administration ’s estimates for that year. A revenue decline of this magnitude would reduce the Proposition  98 guarantee by about $8  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

Update on the Progress of the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Nov 18, 2021 - We note that the effective rates paid by employers are offset in 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22 by supplanting payments made by the state on employers ’ behalf. Changes in contribution rates from 2020-21 to 2021-22 are summarized by Figure 3 above.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4475

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - As another point of comparison, this reflects an increase of 62,600 students (70  percent) from 2019 ‑20, the year prior to the pandemic. As Figure  2 shows, TK enrollment declined during 2020 ‑21 due to the pandemic, then started to increase more quickly in the expansion years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

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 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - Specifically, it exceeds the one ‑time funding we have projected in all previous outlooks, except for November 2020 ($13.7  billion) and November 2021 ($10.2  billion). This funding offers the Legislature a significant opportunity to advance its priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

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

May 11, 2022 - (The state did not collect ADA data in 2020 ‑21.) The declines in enrollment during the pandemic are steeper than changes in the school ‑age population, which suggests that the pandemic has affected enrollment in 2020 ‑21 and  2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4595

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - The additional $20  million is intended to provide additional funding for some LEAs to continue to make progress toward full implementation of the fee schedule. The Sacramento COE is to report on how funds were allocated and used by May 1, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2022-23 Budget: K-12 Early Literacy Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Schools also received and are required to use a portion of funding from state lottery revenues for books and instructional materials under Proposition  20 (2000), typically several hundred million dollars annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4539

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - In the following sections, we discuss the major elements of federal relief for K-12 education and child care and describe how the state has used some funds in 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21. K-12 Education In this section, we provide more detail on the funding and spending requirements for schools associated with each of the three federal relief packages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419