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

Nov 14, 2025 - This shift is motivated by a change in federal regulations requiring states to pay providers in advance of providing services, rather than the past requirement to pay providers within 21 days of submitting attendance records.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - This would ensure that funding levels for direct contractors are more closely aligned with the number of children they serve. If a contractor ’s attendance remains below pre ‑pandemic levels, they likely would see reductions in the amount of funding they receive.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Jan 13, 2025 - This  would result in maintaining prior funding levels for these activities but would preclude this amount of Proposition  4 funds from supporting expanded service levels or additional projects. Spending and Tax Expenditure Proposals New Spending Proposals of Nearly $600   Million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Specifically, the past two budgets assumed DSS would require at least three months to modify AP agency contracts to reflect new slot funding. Additionally, the past budgets assumed DSS would not begin to award new slot funding to GCC providers until t he last two or three months of each fiscal year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - The Governor ’s budget also proposes shifting $31. 7  m illion and 185. 7 p ositions on an ongoing basis from CDE to DSS starting July 1, 2021. As Figure   3 shows, these positions are shifting from six different divisions within CDE, with the bulk of positions shifting from the Early Learning and Care Division and the Nutrition Services Division.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

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

Feb 14, 2023 - Keeping the TK Staffing Ratio at Current Levels Helps Avoid Further Workforce Issues. In  addition to helping address existing budget issues, the Governor ’s proposal to keep TK staffing ratios at existing levels also helps ensure that schools do not experience even greater staffing shortages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - In our conversations with special education administrators over the past several years, they often cited challenges in finding inclusive settings for their preschool ‑aged children with disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - Lastly, ARP provides $7 .2  billion for the federal government to reimburse certain costs for eligible schools and libraries to connect individuals (including students and school staff) to the internet during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - As a result of recent declines in Proposition 64 revenue levels, the spending plan reduces Proposition 64 funding levels for the GCC program by $46 million in 2023‑24. We understand that the administration intends to backfill the $46 million GCC reduction in 2023‑24 with Proposition 64 carryover funds from prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - Below, we describe several issues the Legislature may want to consider when determining the appropriate level of funding for State Preschool. Governor ’s Budget Does Not Include $64  Million Increase for Additional Proposition  98 Costs in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894