The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Educational Governance and Accountability: Taking the Next Step 2025 Policy Analysis for California Education A nonpartisan research center led by faculty at Stanford University, University of California, and University of Southern California, focusing on school performance and equity issues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

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

Feb 4, 2026 - Rather than establishing a stable base for Proposition  98 calculations, it has led the state to adopt a range of actions to avoid exceeding the prior ‑year guarantee. Most notably, this law was part of the rationale for the complicated funding maneuver the state adopted to address the unexpected drop in the 2022 ‑23 guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2026-27 Budget: K-12 Proposals

Feb 19, 2026 - Over time, this led to variation in funding across districts with no underlying rationale. The Governor ’s proposal uses clear objective criteria to determine eligibility (a school ’s EL/LI percentage).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5131

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - The partnership will support the training of math coaches in collaboration with the California Mathematics Project —a math professional development network associated with the University of California (UC) and California State University systems as well as some private universities —and the Rural Math Collaborative, a professional development network of rural COEs led by Lake and Butte.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Moreover, the additional revenue would not have led to higher funding even if the state had not invoked suspension. (In the absence of suspension, Test  2 would have been operative and the guarantee would have been linked with growth in per capita personal income rather than General Fund revenue.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

Early Budget Actions to Support In-Person K-12 Instruction and Address Learning Loss

Apr 23, 2021 - Funding will support the statewide cross-agency Safe Schools for All team led by CDPH and focused on school reopening. The cross-agency team provides and coordinates statewide technical assistance, community engagement, increased transparency, and enforcement related to school reopening.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4417

The 2023-24 Budget: Equity Multiplier and Accountability Proposals

Feb 23, 2023 - Initial studies evaluating the effectiveness of LCFF have shown evidence that additional funding has led to improvements in student outcomes for districts that received greater shares of supplemental and concentration funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4700

The 2021-22 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Feb 4, 2021 - The work group ’s interim report released in October 2020 i dentified several barriers to program participation, including the lack of interagency collaboration between CDE and DHCS, challenging documentation and billing system requirements, a high share of claims being disallowed, and limited state ‑led training and support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4345

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The researchers also noted, however, that the rapid expansion of Florida ’s reading program potentially led to challenges recruiting effective coaches, resulting in coaching having less impact for some students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

Climate Change Impacts Across California - K-12 Education

Apr 5, 2022 - For instance, in recent years, districts in other states have developed capacity to swiftly switch to remote learning when inclement weather has led to the cancellation of in ‑person school. The Legislature may want to explore statutory changes that would require districts to make up instructional days lost due to wildfire smoke, extreme heat, or flood events, either through distance learning or other means.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4586