Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Community Colleges Award CTE Certificates and Degrees. Like other community college programs, CTE programs typically lead to either certificates or associate degrees. Community colleges offer CTE certificates in many areas, with just a few examples being accounting, computer networking, and medical assisting.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Specifically, we recommend the Chancellor ’s Office be required to report: the number of incarcerated FTE students served, broken out by instructional modality; course success rates, also broken out by instructional modality; term ‑to ‑term persistence rates; share of first ‑year cohorts that pass college ‑level math and English; and program completion rates (such as earning an associate degree or certificate).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - In turn, the impact on the r est of the budget would be exacerbated. Paying for awards in the year the costs are incurred would mitigate this situation, as the state would not have to rely on borrowing to cover annual program costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2021-22 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 16, 2021 - Budget trailer legislation required grantees to prioritize the development of such degrees and certificates using existing OER materials before creating new content. The Chancellor ’s Office was permitted to provide colleges with grants of up to $200,000 for each degree or certificate developed.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4372

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - The state, however, provided UC Extension $15  million one ‑time General Fund in 2019 ‑20 to develop additional certificate programs serving adults who had some college credits but no college degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

The 2024-25 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 21, 2024 - Figure  8 shows community colleges are a major educator of RNs, offering 77 of the state ’s 92 associate degree programs. A total of 13,982 students graduated from a  pre ‑licensure  program in  2022 ‑ 23 —39  percent with an associate degree, 55  percent with a bachelor ’s degree, and 6  percent with a master ’s degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4853

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - CCA specializes in the study of art, architecture, design, and writing. It  opened in Berkeley in 1907, relocated to Oakland in 1922, and opened a second campus site in San Francisco in 1996. Serving as a two ‑campus institution for more than two decades, CCA is currently transitioning down to a one ‑campus institution, retaining only its San Francisco site.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

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

Nov 7, 2024 - The campus also has some master ’s degree programs, though many of those programs are offered only to matriculated doctoral students (effectively allowing students to earn a master ’s degree while working toward their doctoral degree).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - For the prior year, the state finalizes its calculation through a process known as “certification. ” Certification involves the publication of the underlying Proposition   98 inputs and a period for public comment and review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

Evaluation of the California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Program

Mar 29, 2023 - The next most common teacher pathway is for individuals to obtain their bachelor ’s degree, demonstrate basic proficiency as well as subject matter competency, and then complete their teacher preparation program while teaching full time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4755