Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - (Before calculating these shares, the Chancellor ’s Office may set aside up to 5  percent of total SWP funds for systemwide activities.) The local share is allocated directly to districts, while the regional share is allocated to the eight SWP consortia.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - (The state provided this school with $5  million in 2022-23). Budget Provides Net Funding Increase for CSAC State Operations. The budget includes $230,000 ongoing General Fund to add a Chief Information Security Officer position at CSAC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

The 2024-25 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 30, 2024 - CSU core operations 240 Delay A 5 percent base increase would be delayed by one year, with the intent to double up base funding in 2025 ‑26, along with providing a one ‑time back payment. UC core operations 228 Delay A 5 percent base increase would be delayed by one year, with the intent to double up base funding in 2025 ‑26, along with providing a one ‑time back payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4829?utm_source=Legislative+Analyst%27s+Office&utm_campaign=415eaeb623-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_30_4829&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-415eaeb623-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - These augmentations reflect a proposed year ‑five compact increase of 5  percent, along with a delayed partial year ‑four compact increase of 2  percent. The Governor proposes to give the segments discretion in how they use these unrestricted base  increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

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

Nov 20, 2024 - State income tax receipts have followed this trend, with withholding collections up nearly 10  percent this year relative to 2023 levels. Most of this increase appears linked with special forms of pay for high ‑income workers, such as bonuses and stock compensation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - CalPERS contribution rates increased every year from 2011‑12 through 2019‑20, rising from 18 percent to 31 percent over that period (for Miscellaneous Tier 1 state employees). In 2020‑21 and 2021‑22, the state applied certain supplemental payments towards CalPERS costs, which lowered rates to 29 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Adjusting for inflation, revenues were 18  percent lower in 2024-25 than in 2018-19. BPPE Fund Has a Structural Deficit. As Figure  1 shows, expenditures from the BPPE Fund have exceeded revenues annually beginning in 2014-15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - San Joaquin Valley counties (excluding Merced) saw inflation ‑adjusted average weekly wages from private establishments increase by 5  percent from 2005 to 2023, but these wages grew 12  percent statewide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2024-25 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 21, 2024 - Figure  5 shows that while some districts were back at or above their pre ‑pandemic enrollment levels in 2022 ‑23, most community colleges remained below those levels. Fall 2023 data will not be released by the Chancellor ’s Office until late February 2024, but some data suggests continued growth in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4853

The 2024-25 Budget: University of California

Feb 28, 2024 - By  2014, however, the share was up to 21  percent, and, by 2022, it was up to 26  percent. (We cover these trends in more detail in Trends in Higher Education: Student Access .) Resident Freshman Admission Rates Generally Have Been Declining.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4862