The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Title III funding must be used to provide services and supports to English learners that assist them in gaining English proficiency. State Recently Eliminated Requirement to Assess English Proficiency for TK Students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

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

Mar 9, 2026 - The Nasdaq composite, which includes the California headquartered companies Nvidia, Google, Facebook, Apple, AMD, and Broadcom, has doubled since 2023. The meteoric rise in the value of these companies has led to sizable gains for their investors and their employees via stock options, which has led income tax collections to grow at double-digit rates.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/852

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

Mar 9, 2026 - The Nasdaq composite, which includes the California headquartered companies Nvidia, Google, Facebook, Apple, AMD, and Broadcom, has doubled since 2023. The meteoric rise in the value of these companies has led to sizable gains for their investors and their employees via stock options, which has led income tax collections to grow at double-digit rates.  
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/852

Proposition 98 Spending Proposals [EdBudget]

Nov 7, 2025 - LCFF = Local Control Funding Formula, COLA = cost-of-living adjustment, FCMAT = Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team, IEP = individualized education program, ELA/ELD = English language arts/English language development, and EMT = emergency medical technician.
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1005

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

Nov 10, 2025 - Trailer legislation requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to approve a list of professional development programs for English language arts (ELA) and English language development (E LD) training by September 30, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

2025-26 Changes in Proposition 98 Spending [EdBudget]

Nov 7, 2025 - LCFF = Local Control Funding Formula, COLA = cost-of-living adjustment, IEP = individualized education program, and ELA/ELD = English language arts/English language development. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
https://lao.ca.gov/Education/EdBudget/Details/1007

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

Mar 18, 2026 - In the late 1990s, a dispute arose around Proposition  227, a ballot measure requiring schools to teach English learners in English only. The SPI advised districts they had the right to request waivers from the SBE, but the SBE concluded the measure ’s requirements were non ‑waivable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - We also use the following primary language groupings: English; Spanish; Chinese, Mandarin, or Cantonese; Vietnamese; Filipino or Tagalog; Korean; and other languages. According to the California Health and Human Services Agency, these non ‑English languages are the top five languages spoken by Californians with limited English proficiency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - The improvement in student outcomes was reported across student subgroups, however, the improvements were shown to be most significant for Black students, English learners, and socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - This program provides one-time grants of up to $10,000 to students in teacher preparation programs who commit to working at a priority school (a school where at least 55  percent of students are low-income, English learners, or foster youth).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089