The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program Transfers $40  Million from Fund Providing Investment Accounts for Foster Youth to General Fund. The 2022-23 budget provided $100  million and $15  million ongoing to the California HOPE for Children Trust Account Fund.
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The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details]

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - The proposal includes eight teacher positions, which would allow CDCR to expand basic and secondary education capacity by 432 students, roughly doubling capacity. Establish Bachelor ’s Degree Program.
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The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program [Publication Details]

Apr 11, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - The administration indicates that the proposed formula would provide a total of $127.5  million in grant awards in 2025-26. This is $10.4  million (8.9  percent) more than the 2024-25 amount. Figure  2 provides an example of how a county grant award would be calculated.
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The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [Publication Details]

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Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Historically, these provisions have allowed individuals incarcerated at state prisons to access only correspondence courses, which are also available to members of the general public. In 2014, the state approved Chapter  695 (S B  1391 , Hancock), which opened the way for districts to provide in ‑person instruction at state prisons by allowing them to receive regular state funding for closed ‑to ‑the ‑public courses offered to incarcerated people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47 [Publication Details]

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The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - Assessment Effect of Proposition  36 on Proposition  47 Prison Population Impact Likely Overestimated … The administration did not provide detailed backup showing its methodology to estimate the impact of Proposition  36 on the prison population.
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The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice [Publication Details]

Sep 10, 2024 - The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
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