The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - Recent salary enhancements and the hiring of additional lecturers and staff primarily drive the operating deficit. CLSF plans to utilize reserves to address the deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - One factor driving this deficit is the school ’s enrollment decline, which is resulting in a loss of associated tuition and fee revenue. CCA has also increased spending in areas such as institutional financial aid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

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

Nov 20, 2024 - …But Gains for High ‑Income Workers Are Driving State Revenues Above Projections. Despite this economic weakness, total pay for California workers has been growing quickly. During  the first quarter of 2024, for example, total pay increased at an annualized rate of 17   percent —one of the strongest quarters on record.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - The 2022-23 budget then provided BPPE with $24  million one-time General Fund over three years to repay this loan and cover its operational costs while BPPE developed a proposal for a new fee structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - For example, faculty from one UC campus and one CSU campus may be awarded a Learning Lab grant to improve calculus pass rates by making the curriculum more engaging for students. No avenue is in place, however, to scale these efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - The administration scores the $541  million as one ‑time savings. (For the past three years, the state has supported the program using a mix of ongoing and one ‑time General Fund.) The Governor ’s budget maintains the new budgetary approach of funding MCS awards one year in arrears.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Recommend Using One ‑Time Funds to Build Budget Resiliency. Between the one ‑time cushion and upward revisions to the 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 minimum guarantee, the Governor ’s budget includes a significant amount of one ‑time funding for CCC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Given community colleges report a backlog of these projects, we recommend giving deferred maintenance projects high priority among one‑time activities after paying off the deferral. Recommend Using Any Non ‑Proposition   98 One ‑Time Funding Also to Build Fiscal Resiliency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - For example, this might mean allocating a larger share of funding toward modernization projects, limiting each campus to one Proposition  2 project across all years, or capping the share of funding going toward “complete campus concept ” projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Recommend Using Available One ‑Time Funding to Retire Payment Deferral. If one ‑time funding becomes available, we recommend the Legislature make retiring this payment deferral a high priority. Retiring the deferral would return UC ’s state payments to their regular schedule, eliminate the associated debt obligation, and reduce state budgetary pressures in the out ‑years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143