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

Nov 19, 2025 - The 2025 ‑26 adopted budget used $1.7  billion in one ‑time funds to pay for ongoing school and community college programs. Most of these one ‑time funds came from (1)  increases in the Proposition  98 guarantee in previous years and (2)  savings related to deferring payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Dec 17, 2021 - Makes $1.7  Billion in One-time Augmentations, Primarily Using Federal Relief Funding. These augmentations are shown in Figure  2. The two largest augmentation, totaling $790  million, are related to the expansion of Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool at school sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4485

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

Nov 10, 2025 - Notable augmentations include $2  million for legal costs and $1.7  million to enhance cybersecurity. This EdBudget table describes the new workload and funding for CDE. The budget also assumes a $15.6 million reduction in non-Proposition 98 General Fund as a result of control sections included in the 2024-25 budget package aimed at reducing state operations expenditures through efficiencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposition 98 Overview and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 7, 2023 - If the Legislature were to eliminate the $1.4  billion deficit entirely through funding a lower COLA, the associated reduction in the rate would be about 1.7  percentage points (for a COLA rate of about 6.4  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4670

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - The largest component is $3.2  billion for deferred maintenance ($1.7  billion for schools and $1.5  billion for community colleges). May Revision SAL Estimates. Figure  7 shows the state ’s final SAL position after accounting for all of the May Revision proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - Non-Proposition  98 Spending Provides $1.7  Billion for School Facilities.   The budget allocates $1.7  billion one-time non-Proposition  98 General Fund attributable to 2021-22 for school facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641