The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - Facility Issues Do Not Appear as Prevalent a Barrier to Implementation. Given most submitted reports indicated school districts have adequate classroom space to meet projected TK enrollment, facility issues do not appear as prevalent a barrier to TK expansion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

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

Jan 13, 2025 - That is, both of our offices have assessed that the budget is roughly balanced. There are a handful of differences in our estimates, but these changes are small enough on net that they do not substantively change our assessment of the budget condition.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 14, 2025 - The refill is only available in years when child care reimbursement rates do not increase or when both rates and the number of enrolled providers increase. Up to $15  million annually for the CCPU Training Partnership Fund, which supports the training of CCPU members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5088

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (That is, in our view, these costs would not have occurred absent legislative action and as a result do not contribute to the budget problem the Legislature faces today.) Comparison to LAO November Outlook.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - (AP agencies do not receive a similar COLA for CalWORKs child car e.) As part of the 2023 collectively bargained early education and parity agreement, the state did not apply the COLAs for 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Because non ‑LEA providers do not have these same advantages, we think it is likely that they will find serving a larger share of students with disabilities more challenging. This is particularly true of those that do not already operate Head Start.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

A Review of Child Care and Preschool Program Flexibilities in Certain Counties

May 13, 2021 - Moreover, the PRRs do not target rate increases to specific age groups that might have the lowest rates relative to the RMR. (The RMR captures cost variation based on both region and a child ’s age using a survey of licensed child care providers.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Overall, we do not expect access to child care to be significantly impacted by the delay in the overall slot expansion plan given that providers likely will be able to serve additional families in 2023 ‑24 with current unfilled  slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - These actions resulted in $265  million in additional Proposition  98 spending that otherwise would have been available to address the budget shortfall. Recommendations Recommend Further Reducing State Preschool to Align Funding With Program Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - Districts Have Option to Serve Younger Children in TK. School districts also have the option to provide TK to students who are born after December 2, but have their fifth birthday during the school year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350