The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Learning Lab also recently launched its public resource library that some faculty might find useful in improving their courses. Learning Lab grants, in turn, have helped improve some student learning outcomes and narrowed equity gaps in certain courses at certain campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As a condition of receiving CCDF, the state must comply with a number of requirements, such as providing some matching funding as well as spending at least 12 percent of CCDF funds on quality improvement activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - It provides nonrefundable tax credits to companies in exchange for a commitment to increase employment and investment in the state over several years. More specifically, the objective of the program is to influence a business ’s decision to make investments in California that would have been made in another state, or not at all, absent the credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

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

Mar 18, 2026 - The SBE consists of ten  members, serving staggered four ‑year terms, and one student member, serving a one ‑year term. The Governor appoints all 11 members with the approval of two ‑thirds of the State Senate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements: Ensuring Effective Legislative Oversight

Mar 18, 2026 - In 1992, the federal government enacted the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, requiring improvements in CVP management for the protection of fish and wildlife. The law included a goal of doubling the annual natural production of all runs of salmon relative to the annual average from 1967 through 1991.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5163

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Better program outcomes also benefit the state fiscally because counties ’ service improvements have the potential to reduce overall costs. Moreover, with a share of cost, counties have an incentive to control program costs in areas over which they have more control (like administration).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services [Publication Details]

Mar 13, 2026 - Analyzes the Governor’s budget for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS), with a focus on a budget proposal to continue planning the proposed Life Outcomes Improvement System (LOIS) information technology project, implementation of new H.R.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 13, 2026 - RCs can contact family members, doctors, schools, or other state agencies to request information relevant to the eligibility determination (with the applicant ’s consent). If an RC determines that an applicant is not eligible for services, the applicant can appeal the decision.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5157

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies [Publication Details]

Mar 10, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies [Publication Details] The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies Format: HTML Description: The 2025-26 budget appropriated up to $20 million to the Department of Finance (DOF) to contract with a consulting firm to assist and advise DOF in creating efficiencies through process improvements in state government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5156

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - The primary purpose of the contract is to create process improvements within state government that will result in significant cost savings to the state. However, the administration indicates that the work could have other benefits, such as improving the quality of health care or reducing unnecessarily bureaucratic processes, thereby freeing up staff time to address other workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156