The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - To compare funding rates for the two programs, w e converted the ASES daily rates into an annual rate consistent with ELOP requirements. Using 2023 ‑24 attendance and rates, the ASES daily rate would be equivalent to $2,900 per participating ELOP student per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - In the coming weeks, the California Department of Education will have preliminary attendance data for the current year that will help th e Legislature determine whether or not the state is on target to meet the Governor ’s budget assumptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The key limitations of the proposed structure ar e: Funding would be available for schools at any grade level, rather than targeted to earlier grades. The research suggesting math coaches are an effective strategy is specific to the elementary grades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Sep 26, 2024 - Budget trailer legislation requires DSS, beginning 2025, to provide the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the Senat e and Assembly budget committees with a proposed list of quality improvement activities that will be funded in the next fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4932

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Sep 16, 2024 - Furthermor e, student attendance generated through participation in attendance recovery programs cannot exceed the number of days a student is absent throughout an academic year, up to a maximum of ten days.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - In addition to experiencing reductions in enrollment, schools also e xperienced steep declines in attendance rates during the COVID ‑19 pandemic. Although statewide attendance rates have been improving, they still have not returned to pre ‑pandemic levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - COEs are not required to share any specific details in either of those sections, so th e level of detail varies by COE. Given COE Student Population, Distinction Between Base Program and Increased and Improved Services Seems Arbitrary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - Similarly, th e 4 5 d istricts participating in the District of Choice program compare with th e 6 35 d istricts accepting students through interdistrict permits. Although we are uncertain what factors account for this difference, we did ask district administrators about potential explanations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - To b e eligible, schools must meet the following criteria based on data from the prior year: Have more than 70  percent of their student population classified as socioeconomically disadvantaged. A student is considered socioeconomically disadvantaged if neither of their parents has a high school diploma, or if they qualify for free or reduced-price meals under the federal
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

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

Nov 18, 2020 - First, we explain the formulas that determine the minimum guarantee and review the key actions and assumptions in the 2020 ‑ 21 e nacted budget. We then explain how our estimates of the Proposition  98 guarantee in 2019 ‑20 and 2020 ‑21 differ from the June 2020 e stimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4298