The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Assessment Learning Lab Benefits Some Faculty and Students. Learning Lab grants have provided professional development opportunities for some faculty at each of the three public higher education segments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Proposals

Mar 19, 2026 - Additionally, in the early 2020s when the state was benefiting from a large General Fund surplus, the budget allocated sub stantial limited-term funding for LCI and SGC to administer several climate-related grant programs, including some related to extreme heat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Parallel Grant Program Added in Some Years. Because the tax credit is nonrefundable, businesses without a significant California tax liability cannot benefit from the incentive it provides. Two types of businesses fall under this category.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

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 Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - The state added the doubling goal as a narrative water quality objective in the 1995 Bay ‑Delta Plan. Doubling natural production relative to the average annual 1967 ‑1991 baseline would mean nearly 900,000 naturally produced salmon annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - While the vast majority of IHSS recipients are eligible for Medi ‑Cal and receive IHSS as a Medi ‑Cal benefit, the state also operates the IHSS ‑Residual program, which provides services to individuals not eligible for federally funded Medi ‑Cal benefits, but who meet all other IHSS eligibility criteria.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - While these campuses may have significant facility needs, they are likely also benefiting from certain other scoring metrics. For example, five of these campuses enroll at least 10,000 full-time equivalent students, placing them in the highest two tiers of points based on campus size.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - The APD process allows the state to request a 90  percent match in federal funding (rather than California ’s standard 50  percent match) to design, develop, and install IT systems that enable the state to more efficiently administer Medicaid benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

California Community Colleges Capital Outlay Projects [EdBudget]

Mar 10, 2026 - California Community Colleges Capital Outlay Projects [EdBudget]     a Community college districts issue local general obligation bonds to pay for a share of project costs. b Proposition 51 (2016) bond funds. c The performance criteria phase is the initial phase of this design-build project. d Replacement buildings listed in this category involve adding space. e Center operated
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1025

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - For example, the budget subcommittees could (1)  ask questions to better understand the potential benefits of using a contractor to identify efficiencies as opposed to directing departments to develop them, (2)  ask for an update on the work with CDCR and The State Fund given that the activities will have likely progressed somewhat since February, and (3)  probe the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156