Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Enrollment Count Methodology If State Switches to Enrollment, Recommend Using Enrollment Averaged Across the School Year. If the state switches to an enrollment ‑based student count, we recommend the state use enrollment averaged across the school year, similar to how ADA is currently calculated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding [Publication Details]

Jan 6, 2026 - Chapter 442 of 2024 (SB 98, Portantino) requires our office to report on the effects of changing the student count methodology of the Local Control Funding Formula and other K-12 education programs from average daily attendance to student enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5100

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

Nov 10, 2025 - Trailer legislation specifies that EL counts in TK will be calculated by applying a fact or to TK enrollment equal to the share of ELs enrolled in kindergarten who are not eligible for free or reduced-price meals and not a foster youth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - The state could also experience a decline in Title III funding due to lower English learner counts. Recommendations Adopt Proposal. We recommend the Legislature adopt the proposed $10  million increase for a TK multilingual screener.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

Updating Special Education Out-of-Home Care Funding

Feb 23, 2021 - In recent years, the state has continued to provide Out ‑of ‑Home Care funding, but counts of foster youth and bed capacity for group homes have been frozen at 2016 ‑ 17 l evels for each SELPA. In other words, for the past several years, Out ‑of ‑Home Care funding has not accounted for changes in foster youth counts in each SELPA, the placement of more foster youth with resource families, or the replacement of group homes with STRTPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4386

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

Feb 4, 2026 - Before this law, the state typically made prior ‑year spending reductions through state accounting adjustments, such as counting some of that year ’s spending toward the following year ’s guarantee. These adjustments sometimes reduced the guarantee going forward, but they did not require districts to return prior payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Districts received funding based primarily on their count of English learners and low ‑income students. Trailer legislation made this funding available for learning recovery initiatives through 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

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

Nov 19, 2025 - After eliminating the deferrals, the Legislature could further improve budget resiliency with a new fiscal tool: giving districts a 13th payment at the end of 2026 ‑27 that would count toward their LCFF and SCFF allocations in 2027 ‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Grantees that receive funding from both programs must set aside local matching funds for each program, as funding from one program cannot be counted as a local match for the other. (Both programs allow grantees to use other CTE categorical funding as a local match.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The Local Control Funding Formula for School Districts and Charter Schools

Jan 9, 2023 - A district ’s HTS add ‑on would count towards meeting the 60  percent threshold. To qualify for this funding, districts and COEs must adopt local plans describing the transportation services they will provide for their students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4661