Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - Including high school absenteeism rates on the dashboard would have resulted in a larger imbalance of high school indicators compared with elementary school indicators. Under the state ’s current ESSA plan, the state has two indicators that only apply to high schools (graduation rates and the College and Career Indicator) and one that only applies to elementary schools (chronic absenteeism).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - In October 2024, State Preschool enrollment was roughly 40,000 students lower than October 2019 enrollment. Since the pandemic, the state has held providers harmless from enrollment declines. The hold harmless is set to expire June 30, 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 4, 2026 - The administration indicates that the purpose of the proposal is “to mitigate the risk of potentially appropriating more resources to the Guarantee than are ultimately available in the final calculation for 2025 ‑26. ” The budget does not specify when the state would make this payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - For new community schools grantees, the administration indicates annual reporting requirements would begin in 2029 ‑30, when they will be required to submit an implementation plan by December 31, 2029.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

Review of the Funding Determination Process for Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools

Feb 29, 2024 - State Enacted a Moratorium on New Nonclassroom ‑Based Charter Schools in 2019, Set to Expire in 2026. Due, in part, to the concerns arising from high ‑profile cases, Chapter  486 of 2019 (A B  1505 , O ’Donnell) imposed a two ‑year moratorium on the establishment of new nonclassroom ‑based charter schools (from 2019 to 2021).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4870

The 2026-27 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 19, 2025 - Most notably, it indicates that the guarantee in 2026 ‑27 would be unable to cover the COLA without a reserve withdrawal. A  decline in revenues or a higher COLA rate could make the COLA unaffordable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5093

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - As part of the 2019 ‑ 20 b udget package, Chapter   51 o f 2019 (S B  75 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) provided $ 10  m illion one ‑time non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund to the OPR for initial work related to developing an integrated data system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Sixteen campuses had freshman admission rates of 90 percent or higher in fall 2024, compared to only three campuses in fall 2019. Transfer admission rates have also increased over the past few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

Update on the Progress of the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Nov 18, 2021 - Figure 4 shows the current division of UAO between the state and employers, displayed as the difference between the green bars (indicating current obligations) and blue bars (indicating current assets).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4475

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - For  example, our understanding is that the Chancellor ’s Office awarded $10  million in grants to a total of six community colleges in early 2019 and that programs generally began enrolling 9th grade students in fall 2019 or fall 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562