The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - As a condition of receiving CCDF, the state must comply with a number of requirements, such as providing some matching funding as well as spending at least 12 percent of CCDF funds on quality improvement activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - For example, it reviews and approves district applications for certain federal grants, officially numbers all new charter schools, and acts as the state ’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Education for various federal programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - The Legislature may want to assess whether the proposed funding level for technical assistance is sufficient given the increased number of schools that will be supported on an ongoing basis. The specific level of funding would depend on several factors, including the number of new schools expected to receive funding annually and the amount of support R ‑TACs and the S ‑TAC are expected to provide to new grantees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - Under current practice, CDE and CTC collaborate to publish information on the number of teacher misassignments and vacancies. This information is available at the school level, district level, and statewide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - This  approach would account for changes in the number of students served across the whole school year, and would be particularly helpful for LEAs that experience significant fluctuations in enrollment throughout the school year (such as COE and charter schools that operate alternative schools).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The workgroup selected the following measures that providers can satisfy to earn one ‑time incentive payments through 2026: Health checks in specified residential facilities. DSP workforce survey participation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - Assessment Administration Likely Underestimates Number of Meals Served in Budget Year. We find the Governor ’s revised estimates for the number of meals served in 2024 ‑25 to be reasonable. However, in our view, it is unlikely that the number of meals served will remain flat in 2025 ‑26 as the administration assumes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Districts also have facility constraints that make it difficult to incr ease the number of children they serve in expanded learning  programs. Governor’s Proposal Increases Number of Districts Eligible for Tier 1 Rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Penalty amount based on the number of staff needed to comply. Teacher Education Requirements Beginning August 2025, TK teachers must have a Child Development Teacher Permit, at least 24 units of early childhood education or child development, or comparable experience.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Based on the most recent projections from Department of Finance, the number of high school graduates in California peaked in 2021‑22. As Figure 15 shows, the number of high school graduates is projected to decline by 17,689 students (4 percent) from 2024‑25 to 2027‑28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989