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

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - UC ’s Workforce Has Grown Notably Over Time, Especially Nonfaculty Staff. In April 2025, UC employed more than 145,000  FTE campus employees, excluding medical centers. UC staffing levels have generally increased over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Activities —such as tutoring, advising, and mentoring services —are only beneficial if students, especially those who need them most, are using them. Recent data from CSU indicates that utilization rates are low for these types of services across many student groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of the Care Economy Workforce Development Package

Mar 10, 2022 - Some Evidence for Existing Shortage of Certain Care Economy Providers, Especially Within Certain Geographic Regions. There is some evidence that California is experiencing a shortage of certain care economy providers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4572

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - The proposed trailer bill language retroactively reestablishes the special fund as of January 1, 2025, so there would be no lap se in deposits. (The state has continued to collect civil appellate filing fees.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - We  do not know, however, whether these respondents are representative of CTE students more broadly, especially because only a small share of students receiving the survey choose to respond (between 14 percent and 33  percent  annually).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2021-22 Budget: Analysis of the Major University Proposals

Feb 1, 2021 - In a California Student Aid Commission survey of financial aid applicants across all se gments conducted in late spring 2020, over 70  p ercent of respondents reported experiencing a loss of income due to the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4336

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - In this vein, we recommend the Legislature examine the Governor ’s proposals relating to Golden State Teacher Grants, College Corps, and College of the Arts especially carefully, as they would be funded from the non ‑Proposition  98 side of the budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - This is especially the case given the state is in the midst of reducing funding in other higher education areas, including for public universities facing similar challenges, and it is projected to have significant operating deficits in the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Stock compensation has become an increasingly important form of pay among California ’s high ‑income workers, especially those at major technology companies. This form of compensation is tied to the company ’s stock price, so it rises when stock prices rise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940