The 2024-25 Budget: California State Library

Mar 13, 2024 - The program has a local matching requirement, with grant recipients generall y required to contribute half of the funding for a project. The State Library, however, may reduce the local match if a local library demonstrates it has insufficient financial resources to meet the full matching requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4882

The 2021-22 Budget: University Capital Outlay

Mar 5, 2021 - The universities, particularly CSU, also encourage campuses to provide a small campus match from their reserve funds to support their academic facility projects.) Review Process Designed to Give Legislature Opportunity to Assess Proposals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4395

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - As a final note, if the Legislature wanted to prioritize certain types of intersegmental efforts, it could direct the recently created California Education Interagency Council (which has representatives from each of the three segments as well as other workforce training providers) to look for these opportunities using federal, philanthropic, or corporate dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - After accounting for workforce growth, salary growth largely matched inflation, with little to no growth in inflation ‑adjusted wages for core ‑funded employees over the past decade. Rising Pension Costs Are Due to Both Workforce Expansion and Rate Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2021-22 Budget: California Institutes for Science and Innovation

Mar 2, 2021 - State law requires UC to match two dollars from external and nonstate sources for each dollar of state funding appropriated to the institutes. Proposal Proposes One ‑Time Funding for Education ‑Industry Partnerships.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4394

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - Using this approach, CSAC could not finalize the percentage of award coverage until August when it received enrollment rosters from campuses. This issue made it challenging for campuses to inform students of their estimated MCS award amounts prior to the start of the academic year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - By the May Revision, the Legislature w ill have finalized data on the price index typically used to calculate the COLA rate. At that time, it will also have better information on state revenues, which will in turn affect the amount of funding available for ongoing Proposition  98 augmentations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

Addressing Capital Renewal at UC and CSU

Jan 5, 2023 - They also may use their reserves to provide matching funds for a major project financed through university bonds. (CSU encourages campuses to cover about 10  percent of the cost of these projects using reserves.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4657

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

Mar 26, 2021 - OPR indicates that the work group ’s required interim report on the status and progress of the final report will be provided to the Legislature by April 1, 2021. OPR indicates that the third and final report, which will include an estimate of ongoing costs for the data system and recommendations on issues such as protecting privacy and security, will be submitted to the Legislature by June 30, 2021.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409

Trends in Higher Education: Facilities [Publication Details]

Apr 30, 2025 - This is the final brief of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. This brief focuses on higher education facilities. The brief includes key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5037