The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - After accounting for the freed ‑up funding and the cost of providing a 2.46  percent statutory cost ‑of ‑living adjustment for school and community college programs, we estimate that $2.8  billion would be available for new commitments (see figure below).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2022-23 Budget: K-12 Early Literacy Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Research Suggests Literacy Coaches Could Improve Student Reading … Various studies suggest that literacy coaches can improve student reading test scores if experienced coaches are placed in the lowest performing schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4539

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Various studies suggest that math and literacy coaches can improve student test scores if experienced coaches are placed in the lowest ‑performing schools. For example, a 2010  study from the RAND Corporation found that literacy coaches placed in Florida middle schools improved student reading test scores for some students, with
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - These activities expire in 2023 ‑24, freeing ‑up the underlying funds. We also score savings from attendance ‑related changes to LCFF and account for the required reserve withdrawal. After making these adjustments, $7.6  billion in funding is available.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - In 2024 ‑25, CSU began addressing this situation by reallocating existing enrollment slots from campuses under their 2023 ‑24 targets to those exceeding their 2023 ‑24 targets. Effectively, this reallocation moved funding internally within the CSU system to help support more enrollment growth at growing campuses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2023-24 Budget: Proposition 98 Overview and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 7, 2023 - COLA = cost ‑of ‑living adjustment and CCEE = California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. Dedicates Most Ongoing Funds to Covering Statutory Cost ‑of ‑Living Adjustment (COLA). The state calculates the statutory COLA each year using a price index published by the federal government.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4670

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - Two promising metrics that many schools already use include (1)  scores on pre ‑ and post ‑tests of skills, and (2)  credits gained while enrolled. Various pre ‑ and post ‑tests exist and currently are used by some COEs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 28, 2023 - The budget provides an 8.22  percent statutory cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for the LCFF. This COLA rate, which reflects the significant inflation that occurred over the previous year, represents the highest statutory rate since 1980-81.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4818

The 2024-25 Budget: The Governor’s Proposition 98 Funding Maneuver

Feb 15, 2024 - Throughout 2022 ‑23, the State Controller distributed funds to schools and community colleges based on program expenditure levels the state initially approved in June 2022 and later modified in June 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4840

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - The Governor ’s budget proposes suspending the statutory cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA) for child care and State Preschool reimbursement rates and redirecting the savings associated with this suspension for an increase to the monthly cost of care plus payments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168