The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - With the State Library ’s current CDT subscription, it can only take advantage of a small subset of the features SOCaaS provides. This proposal would upgrade the State Library ’s subscription so that it could take advantage of an upgraded suite of protective cybersecurity tools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2021-22 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 16, 2021 - Using its state appropriation, OEI fully subsidizes Canvas subscription costs on behalf of colleges. OEI also fully subsidizes technical (help desk) support for Canvas users and subscription costs for certain online tools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4372

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Digital Library Subscription. The state provides $500,000 ongoing funding for digital library subscriptions for incarcerated students at all CDCR prisons. Students have access to research databases, e ‑journals, magazine subscriptions, peer ‑reviewed articles, and e ‑books that can be used to complete course  assignments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - CSAC cites cost increases for subscription services, information technology (IT), data centers, consulting services, facilities, and staff training and travel. These cost increases are primarily driven by higher prices due to inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

Trends in Higher Education: Facilities [Publication Details]

Apr 30, 2025 - This is the final brief of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. This brief focuses on higher education facilities. The brief includes key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5037

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - The appropriation is intended to mitigate BPPE ’s structural deficit by allowing it to repay a recent special fund loan it received to cover litigation costs. We recommend rejecting the proposal, as the existing special fund loan addresses BPPE ’s near-term costs and shifting those costs to the General Fund would come at the expense of supporting other core state programs or building fiscal resiliency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2022-23 Budget: California State Library

Feb 18, 2022 - According to the State Library, $4.4  million of CA reer Pathway ’s one ‑time federal relief funds is supporting subscriptions to six online learning platforms (Bendable, Coursera, Learning Express, LinkedIn Learning, Northstar, and Skillshare).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4549

Trends in Higher Education: College Affordability [Publication Details]

Mar 14, 2024 - This brief is the second of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. The second brief focuses on college affordability. It covers changes in cost of attendance and student financial aid over the past few decades.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4884

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - The associated ongoing cost is built into apportionments in 2026 ‑27. c Related and supplemental instruction costs for apprenticeship programs in 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 are higher than budgeted. COLA = cost ‑of ‑living adjustment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - We estimate each  1  percent increase in payroll would cost $55  million in 2026 ‑27. Cover health benefit and pension cost increases. UC estimates benefit costs will increase by $134  million. UC estimates its health care costs will grow by 8.2  percent, while its employer contribution rate to UCRP will be 17.2  percent of payroll, up from 16.5  percent of payroll in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143