The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Specifically, the department should be able to articulate how the metrics it is tracking would logically be affected by the California Model and how it would know if trends in those metrics are indeed caused by the California Model as opposed to oth er factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - We recommend the Legislature generally use the same student success metrics currently in place for most other CCC students. (The Legislature might exclude one outcome measure —earning a living wage —as it is not applicable to still ‑incarcerated students.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081