California State University Capital Outlay Projects [EdBudget]

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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

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - CalWORKs child care programs focus on families enrolled in or transitioning out of CalWORKs welfare ‑to ‑work activities. The remaining programs are primarily designed for low ‑income, working families that have not participated in CalWORKs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

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

Mar 19, 2026 - However, while the office ’s CEQA responsibilities and workload have grown, it has not received commensurate increases in ongoing state funds to support all of that work. Rather, LCI states that some of these staff have been funded via a patchwork approach including some limited-term sources (similar to how it has funded some administrative functions).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5167

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - In this brief, we examine the Governor’s proposal to restructure state governance. The first section explains how the current system evolved and describes the main entities and their responsibilities. The second section reviews previous governance studies and explains how governance works in other contexts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Second, any unawarded credits from the previous fiscal year can be added to the pool of available credits for the current fiscal year. Credit Pool Has Ballooned to over $923  million for the Current Year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The first section explains how the current system evolved and describes the main entities and their responsibilities. The second section reviews previous governance studies and explains how governance works in other contexts.
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 - This is particularly important for the IHSS hours shift proposal, as the mechanics of how this will work remains unclear to us at this time. In  particular, we note that the proposal to shift IHSS hours growth costs to counties does not assume savings until 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

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