The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - The refill is only available in years when child care reimbursement rates do not increase or when both rates and the number of enrolled providers increase. Up to $15  million annually for the CCPU Training Partnership Fund, which supports the training of CCPU members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - Maintaining the staffing ratio at current levels avoids additional ongoing Proposition 98 General Fund costs that would make the problem worse. Facility Issues Do Not Appear as Prevalent a Barrier to Implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - (AP agencies do not receive a similar COLA for CalWORKs child car e.) As part of the 2023 collectively bargained early education and parity agreement, the state did not apply the COLAs for 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Because non ‑LEA providers do not have these same advantages, we think it is likely that they will find serving a larger share of students with disabilities more challenging. This is particularly true of those that do not already operate Head Start.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - As such, the state must provide additional Proposition  98 funding for State Preschool in 2024 ‑25 consistent with the collective bargaining and parity agreement. The Governor ’s budget includes a $49  million non-Proposition  98 General Fund increase to cover these costs, but does not include the associated $64  million Proposition  98 funding increase for this purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - Proposition  98 covers the bulk of the increase, followed by non-Proposition  98 General Fund and federal funds. The increase is offset by a net decline of $297  million in one-time funds from 2021-22 for support programs for preschool.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - These proposals include: $ 250  m illion one ‑time Proposition  98 General Fund for per ‑pupil grants to school districts that will serve additional TK students who have their fifth birthday after December  2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition. Specifically, the administration has higher revenue estimates than our office, but these are mostly offset by their higher spending estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - In contrast, we do not view these items as baseline spending because they were not approved in any budget ‑related legislation. Consequently, we do not consider withdrawing the inflation set ‑aside or shifting back to lease revenue bonds from cash to be budget solutions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Overall, we do not expect access to child care to be significantly impacted by the delay in the overall slot expansion plan given that providers likely will be able to serve additional families in 2023 ‑24 with current unfilled  slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672