Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - State Has Not Received Data on Cost or Utilization of GI 2025 Activities. The state required CSU to submit three reports on GI 2025 activities. Those reports contained considerable narrative around the GI 2025 activities that campuses were implementing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025 [Publication Details]

Dec 10, 2025 - Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025 [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5099

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - State Allocated First Round of Proposition  2 Bond Funds in 2025-26. The 2025-26 budget provided $142  million in Proposition  2 bond funding for community college capital outlay projects. Of this amount, $55  million was for the preliminary plans and working drawings phases of 29 new projects selected using the above scoring system.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Governor ’s Budget Creates Proposition   98 Settle ‑Up Obligation. As we discuss in The 2026‑27 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K‑12 Spending Plan , the Governor’s budget appropriates $5.6 billion less for schools and community colleges in 2025‑26 than the estimated minimum guarantee in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview $4,219 a Consists of $513 million ongoing funding and $541 million one-time funding. b About two-thirds of this spending is paid for using newly available prior- and current-year funds resulting from upward adjustments in the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee. c Increases budgeted growth from the enacted 2025-26 level of 0.57 percent to 1.57 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities Community College Facilities Summary Post Raises a Few Issues Related to Community College Proposition  2 Projects. In November 2024, voters approved a new education facilities bond, Proposition  2, that provides $1.5  billion for facilities at the California Community Colleges (CCC).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5017

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Proposal Governor Proposes to Provide General Fund Appropriation for BPPE in 2025-26. The Governor ’s budget provides a $10  million one-time General Fund appropriation for BPPE in 2025-26 (to be implemented through the next round of amendments to the 2025-26 Budget Act ).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities [Publication Details]

Mar 17, 2026 - This post assesses the Governor’s proposals to fund the second batch of community college capital outlay projects under Proposition 2, an education facilities bond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Additionally, as part of its Graduation Initiative 2025 (GI 2025), CSU campuses have worked to redesign courses and provide faculty development to build pedagogies that emphasize active learning to improve student outcomes, especially for underrepresen ted minority and first-generation students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171