The 2024-25 Budget: California State Library

Mar 13, 2024 - The program has a local matching requirement, with grant recipients generall y required to contribute half of the funding for a project. The State Library, however, may reduce the local match if a local library demonstrates it has insufficient financial resources to meet the full matching requirement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4882

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - For example, Lake Tahoe Community College is piloting an online synchronous (live) format in which students and faculty can communicate through videoconferencing and submit assignments online. For security purposes, each course section is being limited to students from the same section of a prison.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 11, 2021 - To qualify for the grants, local libraries are required to provide a one-to-one dollar match. Libraries with fewer resources per resident in their service areas c an qualify for a smaller local match.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4461

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Nearly all of the students living on campus are undergraduates, with fewer than 20 graduate students living on campus. As of spring 2023, UC  Merced housed a larger share of its students than the average of the other UC general campuses (38  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2022-23 Budget: Middle Class Scholarship Program

Mar 30, 2022 - The state ’s longstanding Cal Grant program primarily provides tuition coverage, with an access award that covers only a small portion of living costs for the lowest ‑income recipients. The Cal Grant access award has increased only slightly over the past two decades and has not kept pace with increases in students ’ living costs, which roughly doubled over that period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4581

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The  Governor ’s budget includes a $241  million ongoing Proposition  98 General Fund augmentation for community colleges to receive a 2.41  percent cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA), which effectively equates to an unrestricted base increase.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2021-22 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 8, 2021 - A student ’s financial need reflects the difference between two factors: The student ’s cost of attendance, which is calculated by their campus and varies based on their living arrangement (on campus, off campus, or with family).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4355

The 2021-22 Budget: California Institutes for Science and Innovation

Mar 2, 2021 - State law requires UC to match two dollars from external and nonstate sources for each dollar of state funding appropriated to the institutes. Proposal Proposes One ‑Time Funding for Education ‑Industry Partnerships.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4394

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - After accounting for workforce growth, salary growth largely matched inflation, with little to no growth in inflation ‑adjusted wages for core ‑funded employees over the past decade. Rising Pension Costs Are Due to Both Workforce Expansion and Rate Increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - COLA = cost ‑of ‑living adjustment. Governor ’s CCC Budget Plan Includes Proposition   98 Reserve Funding. The Proposition   98 Reserve is an account designated for school and community college programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150