The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - This change includes a $175  million increase in non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund, which is partially offset by a $14  million decrease in Proposition  64 funds and a $10  million decrease in federal funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

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

Mar 18, 2026 - One concern was that they sometimes did not know which entity oversaw a particular issue and could receive feedback or offer advice. For example, districts concerned about the length and complexity of their Local Control and Accountability Plans were not sure whether to engage with the SBE (which adopts the template for the plans) or the SPI ’s staff at CDE (the
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - For schools that choose not to initially opt into the program, we recommend specifying the interval in which they could begin participating in the program (currently not defined in the Governor ’s proposal).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

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

Feb 4, 2026 - From an accounting perspective, settle ‑up payments are always scored to the year in which the guarantee increased, rather than to the year the state disburses the payment to schools. …But the State Has Made Several Exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - As part of the state ’s accountability system, districts report various student outcomes, referred to as statewide indicators, which are then displayed on a public website known as the school dashboard.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges [Publication Details]

Nov 19, 2025 - The state could use the one-time funds to build budget resiliency, which seems especially important given the risks of a stock market downturn. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5093

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

Nov 10, 2025 - The funds are provided to the Office of Public School Construction, which must allocate the funds to EnCorps Inc. Up to $150,000 may be used by the Office of Public School Construction to cover costs of administering this program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges 1 1 a Excludes non ‑tax revenues and transfers, which do not affect the calculation of the minimum guarantee. b This decline is deemed to be zero for the purpose of calculating the guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - This funding resulted in a new service called Coordinated Career Pathways (CCP), which aims to help individuals achieve CIE after exiting subminimum wage employment or completing secondary education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - State law encourages CSAC to use qualitative and quantitative measures to quantify the number of candidates the program helped to recruit, but it is unclear whether the state could use the data currently collected to distinguish which cand idates were influenced by the program and which would have become teachers in a low ‑income school without the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012