The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - Once the information in the Provider Directory is linked to RC service areas, the department could identify potential gaps in service availability throughout the  state. …But Is Only the First Step Towards Measuring Quality.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

Nov 10, 2025 - The budget provides $20  million for the Sacramento COE to award competitive grants to LEAs participating in the first three fee schedule cohorts of the CYBHI school-linked statewide fee schedule. This schedule was developed by the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) as part of the CYBHI to standardize reimbursement rates for behavioral health services
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - School B serves 20 lunches and has an ISP of 50 percent. School B would have 80 percent of meals served reimbursed at the free rate. School B would receive reimbursement for 16 meals at the free rate and 4 meals at the paid rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839

The 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - For example, in 2019 ‑20, school districts that participated in the federal National School Lunch Program generally received $3.50  per free lunch, $3.10 per reduced ‑price lunch, and 41  cents per paid lunch.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519

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

Mar 18, 2026 - This  shift would free up the SBE to focus on broader policy issues while making state administrative functions more efficient. Considering Adding Legislative Appointees to the SBE. The Legislature could consider adding two legislative appointees to the SBE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - State law sets a state rate for free meals, which supplements the federal rate for free meals. For paid and reduced ‑priced meals, the state provides funds to match the combined state and federal rate for free meals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - (Among its 2024 ‑25 cohort, the Center reports only 1.5  percent of Fellows held a master ’s degree.) In  fall 2024, the Center received 1,061  applications from 590 unique applicants for the 2025 ‑26  fellowship year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - This brief provides a short summary of the Governor’s proposed budget for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) before addressing four issues that warrant legislative oversight: (1) quality incentives as part of service provider rate reform, (2) the Master Plan for Developmental Services, (3) DDS’s ongoing information technology project, and (4) the phaseout of subminimum wage employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5008

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - Currently, each of these entities collects and maintains data on its students, but the data generally are no t linked across the segments of education (such as from high school to community college).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Most of this increase appears linked with special forms of pay for high ‑income workers, such as bonuses and stock compensation. These increases, in turn, are linked with the recent run up in the stock market.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940