The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - CCC faculty receive a certain number of flex days so they can take time outside of teaching to pursue professional development activities, including developing new course designs, tools, and materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Systemwide, very little (1.6  percent in 2023 ‑24, less than six days of reserves) is earmarked for this purpose. The remainder is committed to various planned activities, including faculty recruitment, capital outlay planning, and launching new academic  programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Of that amount, $777 million is reserved for economic uncertainties, which equates to 34 days of operations (or 9.1 percent of total annual core operating expenditures). UC reported $1.5 billion in total core reserves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - The 2022-23 budget then provided BPPE with $24  million one-time General Fund over three years to repay this loan and cover its operational costs while BPPE developed a proposal for a new fee structure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

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

Jan 13, 2025 - This is one of the key reasons that the budget remains balanced now. The  June 2024 budget package committed to a total of $28  billion in budget solutions for 2025 ‑26, which included, $12  billion in spending ‑related solutions and nearly $16  billion in all other solutions, including $5.5  billion in temporary revenue increases and a $7  billion withdrawal from the state ’s rainy day fund, the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - The administration scores the $541  million as one ‑time savings. (For the past three years, the state has supported the program using a mix of ongoing and one ‑time General Fund.) The Governor ’s budget maintains the new budgetary approach of funding MCS awards one year in arrears.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Recommend Using One ‑Time Funds to Build Budget Resiliency. Between the one ‑time cushion and upward revisions to the 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 minimum guarantee, the Governor ’s budget includes a significant amount of one ‑time funding for CCC.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - Reserves Total Less Than One Month of Expenditures at All Campuses. In the absence of a systemwide reserves policy, UC allows its ten campuses to determine their own reserve levels. Campus policies vary but typically aim for uncommitted core reserves worth one to three months of core expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

Addressing Capital Renewal at UC and CSU

Jan 5, 2023 - Routine maintenance and other day ‑to ‑day facility costs (such as utilities and custodial services) are commonly referred to as “operations and maintenance ” (O &M) costs. UC and CSU campuses fund O &M costs from their operating budgets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4657

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Given community colleges report a backlog of these projects, we recommend giving deferred maintenance projects high priority among one‑time activities after paying off the deferral. Recommend Using Any Non ‑Proposition   98 One ‑Time Funding Also to Build Fiscal Resiliency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112