The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - For example, these types of facilities can generate revenue from activities such as athletic events and concerts. Recommendation Consider Directing Chancellor ’s Office to Adjust Scoring System. The Chancellor ’s Office ’s scoring system has significant implications for which projects receive state funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - The new framework goes beyond the GI 2025 objectives of increasing graduation rates and closing equity gaps by adding new objectives and several new metrics. One  notable new objective is ensuring all students are able to graduate with a first career job or pathway to graduate education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Figure 9 shows the increase by award type. During this period, the number of students earning each type of CTE award increased significantly. The number of students earning each of these types of awards in non‑CTE fields, however, increased even faster.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - As a final note, if the Legislature wanted to prioritize certain types of intersegmental efforts, it could direct the recently created California Education Interagency Council (which has representatives from each of the three segments as well as other workforce training providers) to look for these opportunities using federal, philanthropic, or corporate dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - For Cal Grant recipients (who already have their tuition, and, in some cases, a portion of their nontuition costs covered), MCS provides ad ditional aid for nontuition costs. Though less notable given relative magnitude, the revamped program also expanded eligibility to CCC students in bachelor ’s degree programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - The remainder (known as “classified employees ”) are in non ‑academic positions, including many types of staff and other  administrators. Salary Decisions Are Made Locally. Most community college employees are represented by labor unions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - Ad ditionally, it would like to update its cybersecurity tools before its existing ones become obsolete or begin to fail. Furthermore, the State Library notes that state procurement processes require planning multiple years in advance to acquire these types of new technologies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Effects on Segments Regular Cost Pressures Are Adding to Segments ’ Fiscal Challenges. CSU ’s and UC ’s fiscal issues are being made more challenging because they, like community colleges, continue to  face all of their typical cost pressures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - The formula allocates funding based on the number and type of students that campuses educate, with the same amount per type of student provided to every campus. The rebenching formula currently applies to all UC campuses except the UC San Francisco and UC Merced campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - About 78  percent of students receive some type of financial aid. (CCA ’s undergraduate tuition level is slightly higher than a few other private art schools in the state and notably higher than one.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994