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

Feb 13, 2025 - Districts Spent $1.6   Billion Through 2023 ‑24 and Report Faster Spending in 2024 ‑25. The December 2024 interim reports show that districts spent $1.6  billion through the first two years of the program (2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Savings Proposals Generates $1.6 Billion School and Community College Settle‑Up Obligation in 2024‑25. The Governor’s budget proposes providing $1.6 billion less in total funding for schools and community colleges than the estimated constitutional minimum funding level for 2024‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 4, 2026 - Most of the remaining $1.6  billion relates to 2024 ‑25, reflecting the increase in the guarantee and the settle ‑up payment being made that year. Separately from these proposals, the Governor ’s budget also provides $1.2  billion in ongoing Proposition  98 funds to offset the expiration of various one ‑time funds that paid for school programs in the 2025 ‑26 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Dec 17, 2021 - The budget package includes $783  million in 2021-22 ($1.6  billion ongoing) across state and federal fund sources to provide additional slots for child care. Slots will be spread across the Alternative Payment Program, General Child Care, and Migrant Child Care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4485

Update on the Progress of the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Nov 18, 2021 - Based on these calculations, which CalSTRS’ actuaries complete each year, the state’s share of UAO decreased by around $1.6 billion. This decrease in UAO is due primarily to a budgetary action taken by the state in 2019-20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4475

The 2024-25 Budget: The Governor’s Proposition 98 Funding Maneuver

Feb 15, 2024 - Starting in 2025 ‑26, the administration would recognize the budgetary costs in increments of $1.6  billion annually for five years. The payments would be scored outside of the state ’s Proposition  98 requirements, meaning they would add to the state ’s projected deficits in those years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4840

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - Our outlook accounts for these changes with a $1.6  billion (2.2  percent) downward adjustment to LCFF costs in 2023 ‑24. This  adjustment builds upon our lower revised estimate of LCFF costs in 2022 ‑23.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - California received about $1.6  billion. Of this amount, 90  percent ($1.5  billion) was sent as grants to school districts and charter schools proportional to their Title I funding under ESSA. Up to 10  percent of the total amount ($165  million) was available as statewide flexible funding for emergency needs in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - For 2023 ‑24, the Governor ’s budget includes a $65  million increase to the $1.6  billion included in the June 2023 budget plan. CDE ’s recent required January  report, however, anticipates needing an additional $61  million above what was proposed at the Governor ’s budget to cover current ‑year nutrition costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - The Governor ’s budget proposes a total of $4.9  billion from the General Fund —$3.3  billion in 2021 ‑22 and $1.6  billion in 2022 ‑ 23 —to support various transportation projects, including transit and intercity rail, active transportation, and climate adaptation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492