The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - Individual Education Program (IEP) Template. The budget provides $1  million to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the digitization of the standardized IEP template by June 30, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - The state could consider soliciting input from COEs and other experts on alternative education or other relevant outcome metrics that could be added to the Dashboard that would be a better indication of performance at COE ‑run schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

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

Mar 18, 2026 - Considering Adding Legislative Appointees to the SBE. The Legislature could consider adding two legislative appointees to the SBE. These appointees could enable greater legislative oversight of the new governance system and ensure the SBE ’s policies are consistent with legislative intent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2022-23 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Jan 25, 2022 - Of the total amount, $200,000 is provided to continue work on the statewide IEP template by convening stakeholders to provide feedback and further refine the template. The remaining $200,000 would be for developing alternative coursework and activities for teachers to use with students with disabilities pursuing a high school diploma under the state minimum graduation requireme nts as an alternate diploma pathway.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4494

Early Budget Actions to Support In-Person K-12 Instruction and Address Learning Loss

Apr 23, 2021 - Chapter  10 also requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to develop a template for this plan. The template must include (1)  a plan for assessing the needs of students and informing the parents of the students they identify in need of academic support, and (2)  an expenditure plan, which must indicate how much of the awarded funds will be allocated for each of the allowable uses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4417

The 2021-22 Budget: Extended Learning and Academic Support

Jan 29, 2021 - The proposal also requires the Superintentent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education to develop a template for this addendum. The template must include (1)  a plan for assessing the needs of students and informing the parents of the students they identify in need of academic support, and (2)  an expenditure plan, which must indicate how much of the awarded funds will be allocated for each of the allowable uses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4326

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - The proposal effectively shifts that cost from this year to future budgets —helping address the current budget problem on a one ‑time basis, but adding to the large budget deficits the state is projecting over the next several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - The remaining $200,000 is to continue work on the statewide IEP template by funding the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) to convene stakeholders to provide feedback and further refine the template.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - LCAP Electronic Template. The budget also includes $148,000 ongoing to support improvements to the LCAP query tool and electronic template. LCAP Requirements. Budget trailer legislation includes several changes to the content of LCAPs and the process for their adoption.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Though the number of students shifted from self‑ to state‑supported courses is smaller in 2024‑25 compared to 2023‑24 (745 FTE students shifted in summer 2024 compared to 4,705 FTE students shifted the previous summer), the effect is still not adding new students but adding new state costs from shifting students formerly in self‑supported courses into state‑supported ones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989