The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan Total $7,768 a Reflects additional LCFF costs associated with serving more students in transitional kindergarten, including costs of existing 12:1 staffing ratios. b Applies to the Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program, American Indian Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Child and Adult Care Food
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - American Rescue Plan (ARP). The ARP was signed into law on March  11, 2021 and provides the largest round of funding, totaling $168.1  billion for K-12 and higher education and $39.6  billion for child care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98

Oct 24, 2022 - The budget allocates a total of $14  million one time for selected COEs to develop model curricula for Native American studies, the Vietnamese American refugee experience, the Cambodian genocide, and Hmong history and cultural studies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4641

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Sep 16, 2024 - The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education Total $719 a Applies to the Foster Youth Program, American Indian Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Child and Adult Care Food Program, Charter School Facility Grant Program, American Indian Education Centers, Equity Multiplier, and K ‑12 mandates block grant. b Uses reappropriated Proposition 98 funds (previously appropriated funds for other purposes that were not spent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - High Speed Network. The budget provides $3.8  million on an ongoing basis to primarily backfill the ramp down of temporary funds for K-12 High Speed Network program activities. California School Information Services (CSIS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

The 2022-23 Budget: California College Guidance Initiative

Feb 22, 2022 - CCGI generates some additional funding by collecting fees from participating districts and charter schools —$2 per middle school student and $2.75 per high school student. Fee revenue for 2021 ‑22 was slightly less than $700,000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4553

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - An imbalance of indicators can result in an overidentification of high schools as needing to receive additional support under federal rules. Legislature Could Consider Ways to Highlight High School Chronic Absenteeism Rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposition 98 Overview and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 7, 2023 - The other notable ongoing proposal in the budget is $300  million for a new component of the LCFF known as the “equity multiplier. ” This component would be allocated for school sites with especially high shares of students who qualify for free meals under the federal nutrition program (90  percent or above for elementary and middle schools and 85  percent or above for high schools).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4670

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - Black students accounted fo r 2 . 4  p ercent, and American Indian and Pacific Islander students each accounted for less tha n 0 . 5  p ercent. Share of Latino Students Rising Over Time. Figure   6 s hows how the program has changed fro m 2 014 ‑ 15 t o 2 018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - (Middle college high schools operate on community college campuses and are targeted to students who are at risk of dropping out of high school. Early college high schools partner with a community college or public university that allows students to earn a diploma and up to two years of college credit by graduation.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021