The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - In 2024, California ’s disadvantaged students scored lower than similar peers in other states in both math and reading, while non ‑disadvantaged students scored better on average than similar peers in other states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Feb 15, 2024 - The payments would be scored outside of the state ’s Proposition  98 requirements, meaning they would add to the state ’s projected deficits in those years. These  payments would bring the state ’s cash and budget documents back into alignment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4840

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

Jan 13, 2025 - We understand that while the administration indicates it will provide this payment in the future—after the final calculation of the minimum funding requirement—it also has not scored this future obligation in its multiyear budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Feb 4, 2026 - From an accounting perspective, settle ‑up payments are always scored to the year in which the guarantee increased, rather than to the year the state disburses the payment to schools. …But the State Has Made Several Exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Under CTEIG, applicants are scored primarily on a holistic review of their CTE programs and how well they meet the minimum eligibility standards. Base grant amounts are determined by a grantee ’s student attendance, and CDE does not award less to individual grantees based on other factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - The school dashboard includes a variety of data, including standardized test scores, graduation rates, and suspension rates. Another key indicator is the College and Career Indic ator, which combines information about a student ’s course completion and test scores.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

The 2022-23 Budget: Green School Bus Grants

Feb 10, 2022 - Scores Most of the Proposal as a State Appropriations Limit Exclusion. The budget identifies the amount reserved for purchasing electric school buses and related infrastructure as excludable capital outlay under the state appropriations limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4525

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

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - Available data show that students attending Districts of Choice have above ‑average scores on measures of progress toward English proficiency. To the extent transfer students experience similar gains, they would transition out of English learner status more quickly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329