The 2026-27 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 19, 2026 - Three ‑ and four ‑year old children are generally eligible for State Preschool if their family earns at or below the state median income ($109,904 annual income for a family of three and $127,338 annual income for a family of four).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5168

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - For decades, the state paid DDS direct care staff (also referred to as direct service professionals) according to an outdated and overly complicated rate structure that had not kept up with rising costs over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - (For the rest of this brief, we refer to use the term “coaches ” to refer to both coaches and specialists.) State Has Provided One ‑Time Funding for Literacy Coaches. In 2022 ‑23, the state created the Literacy Coach and Reading Specialist (LCRS) program and provided one ‑time Proposition  98 General Fund for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556

Assessing a Shift to Enrollment-Based School Funding

Jan 6, 2026 - As part of the state ’s accountability system, districts report various student outcomes, referred to as statewide indicators, which are then displayed on a public website known as the school dashboard.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5100

The 2026-27 Budget: Computer Science Supplementary Authorization

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5153

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

Feb 4, 2026 - The June 2025 budget alluded to this law in its explanation for the $1.9  billion settle ‑up delay in 2024 ‑25, and the Governor ’s budget makes a similar reference to explain the proposed delay in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - Do students who earn an associate degree for transfer (ADT) at a community college end up taking fewer total units to earn a bachelor ’s degree than students who transfer without an ADT? Are students receiving Cal Grant competitive awards more likely to enroll and graduate from college than those eligible students who just missed the cut ‑off for getting awards?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - (Throughout this post, we use the term “districts ” to refer to school districts and charter schools.) When students are newly enrolled in a public school, parents or guardians complete a standardized home language survey.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990