The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - In 2024, California ’s disadvantaged students scored lower than similar peers in other states in both math and reading, while non ‑disadvantaged students scored better on average than similar peers in other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2026 - In this brief, we examine the Governor’s proposal to restructure state governance. The first section explains how the current system evolved and describes the main entities and their responsibilities. The second section reviews previous governance studies and explains how governance works in other contexts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5165

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

Mar 18, 2026 - Figure 3 Four Common Education Governance Models Models Governor appoints state board of education and chief state school officer. 14 Governor appoints state board of education. State board of education appoints chief state school officer. 10 Governor appoints state board of education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - In this brief, we assess the Governor’s 2025-26 educator workforce proposals and provide associated recommendations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5012

The 2022-23 Budget: K-12 Early Literacy Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Research Suggests Literacy Coaches Could Improve Student Reading … Various studies suggest that literacy coaches can improve student reading test scores if experienced coaches are placed in the lowest performing schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4539

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Under CTEIG, applicants are scored primarily on a holistic review of their CTE programs and how well they meet the minimum eligibility standards. Base grant amounts are determined by a grantee ’s student attendance, and CDE does not award less to individual grantees based on other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2024-25 Budget: The Governor’s Proposition 98 Funding Maneuver

Feb 15, 2024 - The payments would be scored outside of the state ’s Proposition  98 requirements, meaning they would add to the state ’s projected deficits in those years. These  payments would bring the state ’s cash and budget documents back into alignment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4840

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - From an accounting perspective, settle ‑up payments are always scored to the year in which the guarantee increased, rather than to the year the state disburses the payment to schools. …But the State Has Made Several Exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

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

Nov 10, 2025 - Adds Funding for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program. The budget provides $30  million for the National Board Program. Similar to the funding provided for the program in 2021-22, the budget sets aside $3  million of the total to cover the fees of first-time applicants to the National Board for
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087