The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Examples of projects include creating an artificial intelligence (AI)-as sisted technology platform for undergraduate chemistry students, developing professional development tools for data science faculty, and redesigning an introductory calculus course to improve pass rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The SPI was presumably chosen by the public because they found this individual ’s policy platform compelling. In this charge, the Office of the SPI could focus on the SPI ’s most pressing priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

How Have Past Stock Market Downturns Affected Income Tax Revenue? [EconTax Blog]

Mar 9, 2026 - By most measures, the global financial crisis was more severe than the dot-com crash. The state 's unemployment rate, for example, peaked at 7 percent following the dot-com crash but reached nearly double that during the financial crisis and remained elevated for much longer.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - The Governor also proposes smaller ongoing augmentations for various targeted purposes, including Calbright College, the Healthy School Food Pathways program, the Common Cloud Data Platform, and credit for prior learning.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2026 - This brief analyzes the Governor’s budget proposals for the California Community Colleges. It covers apportionments, enrollment growth, Calbright College, and various other proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5150

California’s Strong Revenue Trends Mask Looming Budget Risk

Jan 23, 2026 - After the dot-com bust and the Great Recession, it took four and five years, respectively, for revenues to recover. Incorporating revenue risk into the budget now, therefore, reflects prudence, not pessimism.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5104

Oversight of certain public benefit artificial intelligence (AI) companies. [Ballot]

Jan 20, 2026 - The measure would have the following major fiscal effects: Increased state costs that would likely be in the tens of millions of dollars annually to establish and operate a new regulatory commission overseeing certain public benefit AI com panies.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-033

Artificial intelligence (AI) and child safety. [Ballot]

Dec 12, 2025 - The extent to which platforms use AI varies depending on the type of service offered, the scale of the business, and the data they collect. Existing State Privacy Law Includes Certain Protections for Minors.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2025-025

The 2026-27 Budget: California's Fiscal Outlook

Nov 19, 2025 - For California, the dot ‑com era —when stocks rose and then fell precipitously in response to widespread adoption of the internet —offers the most salient example. The internet has proven to be a transformative technology and, yet, the stock market ’s initial reaction was clearly overly exuberant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091