Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - CTE certificates generally focus on occupational skills, and they require anywhere from a few months to more than one year o f full ‑time study. By comparison, CTE associate degrees include both occupational skills and general education, and they typically entail two years of full ‑time study.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - A certain amount of each of these f ees historically has been allocated specifically to the Witkin Law Library to help support its operating costs. In 2024, $65 of the civil appellate filing fees was directed for the support of the law library.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2024-25 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 29, 2024 - CSAC has increased its cost estimates f or these awards to reflect newly available data on the share of recipients who transfer and their average award amounts upon transferring. Governor ’s Budget Reflects Further Spending Increases in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4865

The 2021-22 Budget: California Institutes for Science and Innovation

Mar 2, 2021 - The proposed provisional language indicates the funds could be used to ( 1)  p rovide students with stipends to enable them to connect with industry employers and ( 2)  f or research teams to form industry partnerships.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4394

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

Nov 7, 2024 - UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways a Average from 2005 through 2022. b Average for 2005 through 2019 freshman cohorts. c Average for 2005 through 2017 freshman cohorts. d Average for 2005 through 2021 transfer cohorts. e Average for 2005 through 2020 transfer cohorts. f UC Merced ’s cohort sizes for this group were too small for comparative analysis.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2023-24 Budget: Student Housing

Mar 9, 2023 - Moreover, if all future project phases go smoothly, most projects still take one or two years o f planning and design work before entering the construction phase. Some projects take longer to reach the construction phase, as environmental issues, litigation, and the need to redesign, among other issues that are not fully within campuses ’ control, can arise during project development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4733

Third Round of Federal Higher Education Relief Funding

May 3, 2021 - Under both rounds, supplemental funds for minority-serving institutions and institutions with unmet need could be used f or any mix of student aid or institutional relief. Figure 3 Federal Funds Have Supported Student Aid and Institutional Relief Eligible Uses of Relief Funds Funds CRRSAA Student Aid Emergency grants to students for expenses related to campus disruptions resulting from COVID ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4421

Update on Community College Reserves

Jan 27, 2021 - A second round of federal relief funding, which provides greater benefit to community colleges than the first round, was announced in late December 2020, with funds to begin arriving automatically to colleges over the next f ew weeks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4323

The 2021-22 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 16, 2021 - Chapter   618 o f 2015 (A B  288 , Holden) created CCAP. Unlike traditional dual enrollment, CCAP allows cohorts of high school students to take college ‑level classes on a high school campus. Community colleges may still claim apportionment funding (at the same rate of $5, 622 p er FTE student) for such instruction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4372

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - As part of the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget package, Chapter   51 o f 2019 (S B  75 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) provided $ 10  m illion one ‑time non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund to the OPR for initial work related to developing an integrated data system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409