The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - This creates a fundamental barrier to scaling specific course curricula or implementing redesigned pedagogies, as faculty are not required to adopt them. There Are Opportunities to Achieve Same Objectives Within Each Segment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Although the state is not statutorily required to provide a COLA for apportionments, it has a long ‑standing practice of doing so when Proposition  98 funds are available. (In contrast, the state is statutorily required to provide a COLA for the LCFF for school districts.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2024-25 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 29, 2024 - In most cases, students must also meet a grade point average (GPA) requirement. The specific GPA requirement varies by award type. Most award types require a minimum high school GPA of 2. 0 or 3.0 or a minimum community college GPA of 2.0 or 2.4.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4865

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - Projects in both categories also receive points based on the amount of the local contribution, with districts generally required to cover at least 25  percent of total project costs and receiving more points for covering a larger share.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Stock compensation has become an increasingly important form of pay among California ’s high ‑income workers, especially those at major technology companies. This form of compensation is tied to the company ’s stock price, so it rises when stock prices rise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - Although CSU ’s 2026 ‑27 Operating Budget Plan provides some transparency by providing a spending plan, there is no statutory language that requires CSU to allocate the base increase consistent with this plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - Original MCS Program Did Not Require Students to Demonstrate Financial Need. Whereas most federal and state financial aid programs require undergraduates to demonstrate financial need, the original MCS program did not.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Moreover, no statutory language requires UC to allocate the base increase consistent with this plan. Furthermore, the Legislature could have different priorities —for example, prioritizing compensation increases, enrollment growth, or the building up of UC ’s reserves for economic uncertainties differently than the Board of Regents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - Though UC is not required to report annually on the demographics of students receiving housing assistance, it did report these data for 2021 ‑22 in response to a one ‑time statutory requirement. The data reported is specific to students receiving emergency grants, excluding students receiving other forms of housing assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Certain CTE disciplines, such as business and nursing, required a master ’s degree. The Strong Workforce Task Force believed these requirements might be limiting the pool of industry professionals who could serve as CTE  instructors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098