The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - It paid the remaining amount over the 2015 ‑16 through 2018 ‑19 period. Most recently, the June 2025 budget recognized an increase in the 2024 ‑25 guarantee but set school funding $1.9  billion below the revised estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - Figure 2 shows the total number of subsidized child care slots, as well as total funding, since 2018‑19. Statutory intent language associated with the multiyear agreement would require an additional 44,000 slots in 2026‑27 and 33,000 in 2027‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2021-22 Budget: Public School Restrooms Feminine Hygiene Products Mandate

Mar 1, 2021 - The estimate uses claims data submitted to the State Controller for 2017 ‑18 (reflecting a half ‑year of costs) and 2018 ‑19. The data consisted of 169 r eimbursement claims (97  for 2017 ‑2018 and 72 for 2018 ‑201 9) s ubmitted by 115 school districts and COEs, representing a total of 1, 410 e ligible schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4392

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - As  in 2018 ‑19, the Governor ’s budget allows the Chancellor ’s Office to decide on the number and size of the grants using the proposed funds. Also, like the 2018 ‑19 grants, grantees would have six years to spend their fund awards (aligned with the amount of time a 9th ‑through ‑14th grade cohort of students is to spend in the program).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - CTC competitively awarded grants of $4,000 per participant per year for up to five years to districts, COEs, and schools. 170 2018 ‑19 Provided funding to local efforts to recruit and retain special education teachers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - In 2018 ‑19, the state provided $164  million for the state portion of school meals. This amount has grown to $1.8  billion in 2023 ‑24 (a 987  percent increase). Program costs have also consistently been higher than initially budgeted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2021-22 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 19, 2021 - In 2018 ‑19, about 295,000 full ‑time equivalent teachers were employed in California ’s public school system. This is an increase of 9. 8  p ercent over the 2010 ‑ 11 l evel (the low point during the Great Recession).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4381

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - Betwee n 2 014 ‑15 and 2018 ‑19, 13 o f these districts left the program and 9 n ew districts joined the program. This turnover occurred mainly among small districts. In bot h 2 014 ‑15 and 2018 ‑19, the same five large districts accounted for most of the participating students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - (The ELPAC was developed and adopted in 2018, before the state began expanding TK eligibility to younger four-year olds.) Since the ELPAC was not designed with younger TK students in mind, the major concern was that students who were developing language normally for their age could be misidentified as English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) was signed into law in July 2018, reauthorizing the federal Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. To receive funding, a state must submit a plan to the Secretary of Education that outlines the state ’s approach to CTE and confirms that the state complies with certain federal regulations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021