Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - As  a result, a large amount of SWP funding that has been allocated toward specific purposes (often in the few hundreds of millions of dollars) is not yet spent at any given time. Because there are planned uses for these funds, redirecting them has programmatic impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

Trends in Higher Education: Student Outcomes [Publication Details]

Apr 18, 2024 - This brief is the third of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. The third brief focuses on student outcomes and how they have changed over the past few decades. The brief also raises key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4895

Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - To the WIOA Title II measures, we recommend adding one performance measure for providers —the number of CTE certificates earned by adult education students. To allocate performance funding, the state could set a dollar value to each performance point and adjust by COLA each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - The formula also deducts a student contribution from part ‑time work earnings. Specifically, the MCS calculation assumes a student works 15 hours per week, 39 weeks per year, at the state minimum wage rate, as adjusted annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2024-25 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 21, 2024 - Left Unchanged, Summer Loophole Could Add Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in SCFF Costs. Systemwide, summer enrollment averages 12  percent of total annual enrollment, though the share can be as high as 20  percent in some districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4853

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Specifically, in 2022 ‑23, 1,808 CCC students at CDCR (12  percent) had earned more than 60  units. Of these students, 418 (2.7  percent) had already earned 100 or more CCC units. Just over 100 of these students had already accumulated 150 or more units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Addressing Capital Renewal at UC and CSU

Jan 5, 2023 - The cost of capital ren ewal projects can vary widely, with costs ranging from tens of thousands of dollars for smaller projects to tens of millions of dollars for larger projects. If aged building components are not replaced, they can start malfunctioning or stop working altogether.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4657

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - In addition, UC intends to use $20  million from its investment earnings for its core operating costs in 2026 ‑27. UC also anticipates generating $15  million in freed ‑up funds from procurement savings and other operational efficiencies that it will use for its core operations in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Since then, revenues in the BPPE Fund have been roughly flat in unadjusted dollars. Adjusting for inflation, revenues were 18  percent lower in 2024-25 than in 2018-19. BPPE Fund Has a Structural Deficit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - With CSU and UC set to raise tuition charges in 2026 ‑27, each segment will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new tuition revenue. This additional revenue will allow each segment to cover some of its spending priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112