The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - (One exception: districts are required to report the number of students enrolled in ELOP programs that are served at third ‑party, off ‑site locations.) Chapter  1003 of 2024 (A B  1113 , McCarty) requires the California Department of Education to collect, starting in 2025 ‑26, enrollment in each of the state ’s three expanded learning programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Consider Trade-Offs of Setting Service Requirements for Multilingual Learners. As the Legislature considers actions it can take to better support multilingual learners in TK, it may want to weigh the trade-offs of having service requirements in law for students that have been identified as multilingual learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Current Penalty Structure Has Trade ‑Offs. Compared with other elementary grades, the state provides higher levels of funding for TK, as well as stricter requirements with relatively stringent penalties for noncompliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - The Governor ’s plan addresses these trade ‑offs by proposing a balance of new ongoing and one ‑time spending. This approach seems like a reasonable starting point for building the budget. Plan Builds a Budget Cushion That Would Help Protect Ongoing Programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

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

Jan 13, 2025 - This means that, going forward, decisions to balance the budget will involve more difficult trade ‑offs. We recommend the Legislature use the next few months to review program performance to develop its own approach to addressing the deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Determining the exact mix of math and literacy coach funding involves weighing key trade‑offs and depends on how the Legislature prioritizes these two different subject areas. On the one hand, additional funding for literacy coaches would allow the state to further expand literacy coaches to other high‑poverty schools and build upon previous efforts to increase training and support statewide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Feb 15, 2024 - Additionally, delaying the implementation date would give the Legislature more time to consider the benefits and trade ‑offs of funding training activities either through the K ‑12 mandates block grant or annual budget process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

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

Feb 29, 2024 - Nonclassroom ‑based charter school programs can range from hybrid programs with a combination of on ‑site and off ‑site instruction to fully online virtual academies. (The level of in ‑person and remote instruction that hybrid programs offer vary.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4870

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

Sep 16, 2024 - In a year when LCFF rates grow by less than 2  percent, state law allows school districts to lay off employees during the time period between five days after enactment of the state budget and August 15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

Overview of Special Education Funding Models

Dec 17, 2021 - Deciding to shift to a new funding model should involve careful consideration of why a new model and its associated trade ‑offs are preferable over the existing system, as well as how the new model would be implemented to address any relevant shortcomings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4486