The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Under this time line, the administration estimates BPPE would make annual payments of $1.9  million from 2026-27 through 2031-32, with those payments totaling $11.5  million (including interest) across the six-year period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The Legislature, for example, could consider providing CSU and UC with base increases more in line with the current CCC COLA rate of 2.41  percent. Alternatively, the Legislature could eliminate the base increases for UC and CSU altogether, thereby making the state ’s structural deficit more manageable to address and increasing the chances that core programs could be sustained moving forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

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

Jan 13, 2025 - On a net basis, these items slightly improve the budget’s bottom line. Neither our November estimates nor the administration ’s estimates included any costs associated with the devastating wildfires in Southern California, as both were developed before those wildfires began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2021-22 Budget: UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Feb 26, 2021 - State Line Item. In 2017 ‑18, the state altered this funding arrangement by directly budgeting General Fund for UC ’s central services (including ANR) in the annual budget act. The state established this line item in response to a report from the California State Auditor that raised concerns over UCOP ’s budget transparency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4391

The 2023-24 Budget: California State Library

Apr 19, 2023 - While workload has increased at the Witkin State Law Library, it remains in line with job expectations. Moreover, the California State Law Library Special Fund is intended to cover the operating expenses of the Witkin State Law Library.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4761

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - The language directs the Chancellor ’s Office to submit a report to the Legislature containing a project time line, budget, and progress update by January 31, 2027. It  also directs the Chancellor ’s Office to submit a second report to the Legislature on the project ’s implementation status by January 31, 2030.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - In Line With Longstanding Legislative Priority, Cal Grant Funding Is Maintained. As part of the June 2024 budget agreement, the Legislature effectively decided to reduce programs elsewhere so that it could maintain funding for the state ’s longest ‑standing student financial aid program, the Cal Grant program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - This growth is in line with the growth in enrollment over the same period. The student ‑to ‑employee ratio at CLSF has been roughly four to one since 2015 ‑16. CLSF ’s student ‑to ‑faculty ratio is currently ten to one (inclusive of its master ’s programs) and has held close to that level for the past decade.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - It also is unclear whether state and local public health agencies have the capacity to support schools on such a short time line. The Legislature will want t o consider whether the proposal provides sufficient time for planning and whether the schools and public health agencies have the capacity to effectively implement the requirements under the time lines specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2022-23 Budget: Student Housing

Apr 8, 2022 - Though the state recently revamped the Middle Class Scholarship program to substantially increase living cost aid for low ‑ and middle ‑income students at UC and CSU, the revamped program has no set time line for reaching full implementation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4589