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

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - We have heard from stakeholders that the general unpredictability of how many hours of care a family would ultimately use in any given month may dete r some child care providers from enrolling families that receive vouchers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - More broadly, the Legislature might also want to consider changes to how AP agencies are funded. In a previous analysis of AP agency funding, we make several recommendations that would better align funding for AP agencies with the costs to administer voucher ‑based programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - If enrollment does not increase from spring 2023 levels, the state may be able to reduce the State Preschool program allocation by an additional $573  million in 2025 ‑26. This is because, on net, State Preschool programs are currently serving 43,000 fewer children than they were prior to the pandemic, while the pandemic related reimbursement flexibility allows providers to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

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

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

Jan 13, 2023 - Figure  3 shows how the spending solutions are broken out across program area and type. Appendix  1 provides a list of these proposed solutions. The remainder of this section describes each of these types in turn. $7.1   Billion in Delayed Spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool [Publication Details]

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5088

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

Apr 29, 2021 - Child Care In this section, we provide more detail on child care funding from the three federal relief packages and describe how the state has expended some of these funds. Figure  2 summarizes the total allocation California received specifically for child care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - The Governor ’s proposal differs from recent legislative action by expanding access through TK instead of State Preschool. How the Legislature may want to go about preschool expansion depends on its own specific goals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

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