The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Beyond these priorities, we think the proposed student support block grant is reasonable. This block grant provides districts with flexible funding they could use for a range of student services linked to local conditi ons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - The measure does not specify how the funds are to be allocated among these specific purposes. In addition to this state bond, voters in the same election approved 14 local general oblig ation bonds totaling $9.9  billion for community college facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The Governor’s budget for higher education for 2026‑27 is billions of dollars higher than the current year, with no plan for how to sustain that funding in 2027‑28. New Higher Education Spending Is at Risk Given Stock Market Signals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - The new framework goes beyond the GI 2025 objectives of increasing graduation rates and closing equity gaps by adding new objectives and several new metrics. One  notable new objective is ensuring all students are able to graduate with a first career job or pathway to graduate education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - For Cal Grant recipients (who already have their tuition, and, in some cases, a portion of their nontuition costs covered), MCS provides ad ditional aid for nontuition costs. Though less notable given relative magnitude, the revamped program also expanded eligibility to CCC students in bachelor ’s degree programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Governor Presents No Plan for How to Honor Out ‑Year Commitments. The Governor ’s budget continues to make out ‑year funding commitments to UC in fiscal years when the state is projected to have deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - Rather than making commitments in advance, the Legislature could determine each year how much support it can afford to provide CSU in light of overall fiscal conditions and competing budget priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major CCC Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Committee Recommended Adding First ‑Generation College Status to Formula. In  December 2019, the committee recommended that counts of first ‑generation college students be added to the supplemental allocation as well as the student success allocation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4531

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - When the state has added new authorized positions, it has added associated funding. For example, in 2023‑24, the state augmented CSAC’s state operations budget $1.1 million for the additional positions, along with a few hundreds of thousands of dollars for other things (new high school toolkits and additional Cash for College efforts).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Apart from this grant round, Learning Lab had begun analyzing how to ramp down its activities consistent with last year ’s agreement to stop funding the program beginning in 2026-27. Governor ’s Proposal Governor Proposes Retaining Learning Lab and Shifting to Government Operations Agency (GovOps).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171