The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - With this approach, providers had to serve a specified number of children to fully earn the contract. If a provider did not earn a contract, funds would be returned to the state. The 2023 ‑24 budget temporarily extended the pandemic-related reimbursement flexibility until June 30, 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

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

Jan 13, 2025 - The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

May 13, 2021 - The state determines many programmatic aspects, such as who is eligible for the programs and how much providers receive for reimbursement. For example, state law specifies that, to be eligible for subsidized child care, children must be under the age of 13 and from a family with an income at or below 85  percent of the state median income ($73,885 for a family of three).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4431

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - We continue to work with DSS to understand the amount and fund source of backfill dollars included in 2023 ‑24 and how these levels increase in future years as the remaining one ‑time federal funds expire in September 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Under this approach, providers had to have a specified amount of attendance to fully earn their contract. Any unearned funds would be returned to the state and could be redistributed to other providers that had capacity to serve more children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - How the Legislature may want to go about preschool expansion depends on its own specific goals. For example, if the Legislature wants to offer one year of public preschool to all students, then TK could be a better path to expansion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Recent budgets have allocated or planned tens of billions of dollars for one ‑time or temporary spending purposes in 2021 ‑22, 2022 ‑23, and 2023 ‑24. The Legislature can select an entirely different set of spending solutions to address the budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Given the complexities of such a change, the Legislature may want to wait a few years and see how the expansion of TK affects State Preschool enrollment before deciding to adjust eligibility in this way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - If the administration has specific concerns with how CDE is administering the program, more cost effective solutions likely exist to address these concerns. Legislature Has Several Options on How to Proceed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

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

Apr 29, 2021 - States have considerable discretion in deciding how to allocate funding. Similar to the requirements for ESSER funds, the state has one year to commit the funds and until September 30, 2022 to expend them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419