The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - New Requirements Added in 2024 ‑25 Following a Legal Settlement. In late 2020, the families of several students living in Oakland and Los Angeles filed a lawsuit alleging the state had failed to ensure that schools provided adequate instruction during the pandemic ( Cayla  J.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2022-23 Budget: Local Control Funding Formula

Jan 28, 2022 - Using this data and our updated projections, we estimate the COLA for 2022‑23 will be closer to 6.17 percent. Covering this higher COLA rate for LCFF would cost approximately $2.6 billion, an increase of $500 million compared with the estimate in the Governor’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4505

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, an additional $100  million was provided. Planning Support ($500   Million). In 2021 ‑22, the state provided $200  million Proposition  98 General Fund to all local education agencies (LEAs) —districts, charter schools, and county offices of education —that operate kindergarten programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2022-23 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Jan 25, 2022 - The 2022-23 Budget: Special Education Proposals The 2022‑23 Budget Special Education Proposals Summary. This post provides background on various special education programs, describes the Governor ’s proposals related to these topics, and offers associated recommendations and issues for the Legislature to consider.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4494

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

Nov 10, 2025 - The June 2023 budget reduced funding for the Zero-Emission School Bus and Infrastructure Program but expressed the Legislature ’s intent to provide additional funding in the future, including a $500  million appropriation in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2023-24 Budget: One-Time K-12 Spending Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - (Schools with less than 500  students are automatically exempt from this staffing requirement.) The remaining funding can be used for training, supplies and materials, and for arts educational partnership programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4688

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, the Center raised Fellows salaries by 9.75  percent, up to the current level of $3,253 per month. If adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index (CA CPI), that monthly salary rate would be $3,447 in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - Funding increases for State Preschool in 2021‑22 and 2022‑23 were primarily due to rate increases. In 2023‑24 and 2024‑25, the state made one‑time reductions to the program in recognition that funding provided exceeded the amount necessary to fund all State Preschool contracts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - LEAs with up to 500 kindergarteners are to receive a $25,000 base grant and LEAs with more t han 500 kindergartners are to receive a $50,000 base grant. COEs are to receive $15,000 for every LEA in their county that operates a kindergarten program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641