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

Mar 18, 2026 - This structure does not guarantee a district is well managed or eliminate conflict, but it clearly defines the local board as the final authority and allows voters to hold the school board accountable for the district ’s performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

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

Feb 4, 2026 - We analyzed previous forecasts and found that, for current ‑year revenue estimates, the May forecast is typically within about 4  percent of the year ’s final revenue collections. (The range of uncertainty for the budget year is more than twice as large.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

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

Nov 19, 2025 - Finally, the withdrawal is not especially sensitive to changes in revenue. Specifically, General Fund revenues would have to exceed our estimate by roughly $14  billion in 2026 ‑27 before the formulas would cancel the withdrawal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

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

Nov 10, 2025 - LEAs receiving these grants must submit interim and final reports on the use of funds by June 30, 2027 and June 30, 2029, respectively. These reports must describe how funds were used to employ coaches and improve school literacy programs, how expenditures impact student literacy, an d how the LEA plans to continue to support literacy coaches past the award period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

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

Feb 13, 2025 - The administration indicates the state would address the payment in the June 2026 budget plan —after the state makes its final revenue estimate for 2024 ‑25, recalculates the guarantee, and determines the amount owed to schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The Governor ’s 2024 ‑25 budget then proposed to delay the final stage of service provider rate reform implementation by one year (to July 1, 2025). The adopted 2024 ‑25 budget modified this proposal, delaying the final stage of implementation by six months, rather than one year (to January 1, 2025).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

Nov 20, 2024 - For the prior year, the state finalizes its calculation through a process known as “certification. ” Certification involves the publication of the underlying Proposition   98 inputs and a period for public comment and review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Finally, the Governor sets the balance of the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to $4.5   billion —somewhat higher than the level enacted by recent budgets. Revenue Estimates Reasonable, but Risks Must Be Kept in Focus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - CTEIG applications are reviewed by CDE, with final approvals made by the State Board of Education. For K ‑12 SWP, funding is allocated from the California Community Colleges Chancellor ’s Office to eight SWP regional consortia based on each region ’s unemployment rate, share of statewide attendance in grades 7 ‑12, and share of projected job openings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - For 2025 ‑26, the Governor ’s budget provides $1.1  billion to fund the additional students anticipated in the final year of TK expansion. The budget assumes that the statewide attendance for TK students will be 229,200 in 2025 ‑26, an increase of 60,000 (37  percent) compared with attendance in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968