The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Oversight of programs allows the state to determine whether existing programs are well‑designed to address their key goals, as well as help inform legislative actions that might be needed to help balance the state budget over the next few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Feb 14, 2023 - Keeping the TK Staffing Ratio at Current Levels Helps Avoid Further Workforce Issues. In  addition to helping address existing budget issues, the Governor ’s proposal to keep TK staffing ratios at existing levels also helps ensure that schools do not experience even greater staffing shortages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - The policy allows three‑year olds enrolled in State Preschool to continue participating in the program until they are eligible for kindergarten, helping to ensure the child is prepared for kindergarten.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - If the Legislature is inte rested in changing programmatic requirements to the TK program (as alluded to in the Governor ’s master plan), one ‑time funds could be helpful to support districts in meeting those requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - This approach would increase the number of voucher ‑based slots and would help GCC providers funded on the SRR to address inflationary pressure. One drawback to this approach is that GCC providers on the RMR would not receive any additional funding to help address inflationary pressures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

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

May 13, 2021 - This helps to ensure the kindergarten readi ness benefits a child receives from preschool as a three-year old do not diminish prior to kindergarten enrollment. Moreover, the change would reduce some administrative burden without adding cost pressure to the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - While the administration indicates in its plan guide that it is “actively collaborating to develop processes to maintain these flexibilities, ” it has not disclosed any details to help the Legislature evaluate whether these new processes would be more or less burdensome for providers compared to current processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363