The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - The school indicates that these funds “will bridge the college into the next fiscal year, address its current deficit, and position the college both to continue its strong fundraising work and pursue its path to long ‑term  sustainability. ” CCA Is Not the Only Campus Facing Budget Challenges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Furthermore, there are two major pieces of missing information which are key to supporting the rationale for this proposed package. These pieces of information include: (1)  the specific workforce gaps by care economy provider type that exist (accounting for major recent state investments that should produce additional care economy providers) and the extent to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

Third Round of Federal Higher Education Relief Funding

May 3, 2021 - Institutions are to spend HEERF base funds within one calendar year from the date they receive their last award. Federal guidance indicates that institutions may also, under certain circumstances, request an extension of up to one additional year to spend the funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4421

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - The 2022-23 budget then provided BPPE with $24  million one-time General Fund over three years to repay this loan and cover its operational costs while BPPE developed a proposal for a new fee structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - For example, faculty from one UC campus and one CSU campus may be awarded a Learning Lab grant to improve calculus pass rates by making the curriculum more engaging for students. No avenue is in place, however, to scale these efforts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - The administration scores the $541  million as one ‑time savings. (For the past three years, the state has supported the program using a mix of ongoing and one ‑time General Fund.) The Governor ’s budget maintains the new budgetary approach of funding MCS awards one year in arrears.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Recommend Using One ‑Time Funds to Build Budget Resiliency. Between the one ‑time cushion and upward revisions to the 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 minimum guarantee, the Governor ’s budget includes a significant amount of one ‑time funding for CCC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Given community colleges report a backlog of these projects, we recommend giving deferred maintenance projects high priority among one‑time activities after paying off the deferral. Recommend Using Any Non ‑Proposition   98 One ‑Time Funding Also to Build Fiscal Resiliency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - For example, this might mean allocating a larger share of funding toward modernization projects, limiting each campus to one Proposition  2 project across all years, or capping the share of funding going toward “complete campus concept ” projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - Recommend Using Available One ‑Time Funding to Retire Payment Deferral. If one‑time funding becomes available, we recommend the Legislature retire this payment deferral either this year or in the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142