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

Nov 14, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool ‑$114 $2,043 a Includes prior year one ‑time costs associated with quality carryover, SB 140 carryover, child care infrastructure program, court cases, and the whole child community equity program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Recommendations Consider Developing a Child Care Budget Plan in Case Legislature Does Not Receive Key Information Prior to June 15. Given the alternative methodology and a new collective bargaining agreement may not be finalized prior to the June  15 deadline to pass a budget, the Legislature may want to plan for costs associated with the new rates in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Nov 17, 2023 - Increases in CalWORKs Caseload and Cost Per Case. The spending plan provides an additional $140  million total funds for expected net cost increases in CalWORKs child care programs. The net cost increase is due to increases in caseload and cost per case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - While the Governor ’s budget is balanced under the administration ’s estimates for 2023 ‑24, this is not the case for future years. Specifically, the administration forecasts operating deficits ranging from $4  billion to $9  billion over the multiyear period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

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

Feb 14, 2023 - In some cases, the lower staffing ratio would also mean a school district would need to hire additional credentialed teachers to move from classrooms of 24 to classrooms of 20. Given that only 23  percent of school districts reported having enough TK teachers, dropping to the lower ratio likely will make implementation more  challenging.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - The Legislature will want to ask the administration how it intends to ensure that Proposition  64 funding levels remain flat in child care in cases where Proposition  64 revenues decrease after 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - This is particularly the case in school districts that currently use classrooms on elementary school campuses for State Preschool. If the Legislature is interested in expanding preschool access through TK, it may want to clarify the role of the State Preschool program and make asso ciated programmatic changes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

A Review of Child Care and Preschool Program Flexibilities in Certain Counties

May 13, 2021 - In some cases, a provider may serve less children than it intended to serve and not fully earn its contract. These unused funds result in one-time savings for the state. If a provider has a history of unused funds over several years, CDE could permanently reduce the provider ’s contract.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431