The 2022-23 Budget: California State Library

Feb 18, 2022 - The platforms focus on many areas and offer several types of services and content. Coursera, for example, offers certificates in a variety of industries, including information technology, cybersecurity, and marketing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4549

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Other categorical programs fund specific types of CTE programs, including apprenticeships (prog rams that combine paid on ‑the ‑job training with related classroom instruction), noncredit programs, online programs, and nursing programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Digital Library Subscription. The state provides $500,000 ongoing funding for digital library subscriptions for incarcerated students at all CDCR prisons. Students have access to research databases, e ‑journals, magazine subscriptions, peer ‑reviewed articles, and e ‑books that can be used to complete course  assignments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2021-22 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 16, 2021 - OER are digital instructional materials that educators can develop, share, repurpose, and make available to their students. OER can be used for in ‑person classes as well as hybrid and fully online courses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4372

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - One  notable new objective is ensuring all students are able to graduate with a first career job or pathway to graduate education. The figure below compares the metrics that CSU used under GI 2025 with the broader set of metrics under the new initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - In addition to apportionments, a CCC categorical program provides $3  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund for textbooks or digital course content for incarcerated students across all types of correctional facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

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

Mar 10, 2022 - EDD operates America ’s Job Centers of California —commonly referred to as one ‑stop job centers —throughout the state as required under the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The department also runs the state ’s employment insurance benefit programs, including Unemployment Insurance, Paid Family Leave, and Disability Insurance, and collects state payroll taxes that workers and employers pay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Major University Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - That new program combines two distinct objectives —increasing student mental health resources and increasing digital equity —without a clear nexus between the two. At CSU, the proposed program ’s objectives would overlap with those of the separately funded Basic Needs Initiative.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4336

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - For example, these types of facilities can generate revenue from activities such as athletic events and concerts. Recommendation Consider Directing Chancellor ’s Office to Adjust Scoring System. The Chancellor ’s Office ’s scoring system has significant implications for which projects receive state funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - Under these partnerships, the workforce boards (through their federally funded America’s Job Centers) refer dislocated or other unemployed workers to an adult school or community college for training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652