The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - CCC faculty receive a certain number of flex days so they can take time outside of teaching to pursue professional development activities, including developing new course designs, tools, and materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The significance of these examples is not simply that two different entities disagreed about policy, but that the governance structure did not provide a clear path for resolving these disagreements outside of extended litigation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - Other water users in the watershed would remain outside of the VA program for various reasons. For  example, they might obtain most of their water from another source, such as groundwater. Under the plan, these water users would follow a regulatory compliance pathway (as discussed in the next section).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Part of the impetus to switch to a county MOE structure was to provide counties with fiscal relief as IHSS costs, largely outside of the counties control, continued to grow rapidly. Because nonfederal IHSS costs have grown faster than the MOE in recent years, the state has taken on an increasing share of IHSS program costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - At the same time, counties face other cost pressures outside of HHS program administration and more related to direct services . H.R.  1 policies that result in disenrollment from Medi ‑Cal will put pressure on county responsibility for indigent health.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

Addressing Chronic Vacancies in Prison Mental Health Care

Feb 23, 2026 - If the state —working with the court —allowed tele ‑mental health providers to work outside of California, it could likely attract a much larger pool of qualified professionals. Moreover, California often pays mental health professionals more than other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5134

The 2026-27 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 23, 2026 - Moreover, the department ’s actual costs in a given year are influenced by various factors —some of which are outside of its control, such as trends in prison admissions —making precise cost projection difficult.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5137

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - The state has three expanded learning programs that provide students with academic and enrichment activities outside of normal school hours. Two of these programs, the After School Education and Safety (ASES) program and 21st  Century Community Learning Centers (21st  Century program), are longstanding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131