The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Though the number of students shifted from self‑ to state‑supported courses is smaller in 2024‑25 compared to 2023‑24 (745 FTE students shifted in summer 2024 compared to 4,705 FTE students shifted the previous summer), the effect is still not adding new students but adding new state costs from shifting students formerly in self‑supported courses into state‑supported ones.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - Considering Adding Legislative Appointees to the SBE. The Legislature could consider adding two legislative appointees to the SBE. These appointees could enable greater legislative oversight of the new governance system and ensure the SBE ’s policies are consistent with legislative intent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

The 2023-24 Budget: One-Time K-12 Spending Proposals

Feb 16, 2023 - State law also requires schools to offer such courses in grades 7 and 8 as electives. The specific courses and amount of instruction are determined by each local governing board. In high school, students may take an arts course to earn their high school diploma.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4688

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - COEs could de scribe the courses that students can access, including career technical education courses, or A ‑G courses. COEs could also describe whether they partner with a community college to provide access to dual enrollment for students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Specifically, the program is intended to increase the number of CTE ‑aligned pathways for high ‑wage, high ‑demand jobs that incorporate A ‑G course requirements and/or provide students with an opportunity to earn college credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

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

Feb 4, 2026 - The proposal effectively shifts that cost from this year to future budgets —helping address the current budget problem on a one ‑time basis, but adding to the large budget deficits the state is projecting over the next several years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5110

The 2022-23 Budget: California College Guidance Initiative

Feb 22, 2022 - The college or university, in turn, can use the data to inform decisions about admissions and course placement. As of 2021 ‑22, 95 school districts participate in CCGI. CCGI Is Funded Through Mix of Proposition  98, Fee Revenue, and Philanthropy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4553

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Nov 10, 2025 - An instance of a teacher shortage is defined as a course or class assignm ent that is not permanently filled as of census day (typically the first week in October), not filled by a fully credentialed teacher, or not filled by a teacher who is appropriately assigned.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5087

The 2022-23 Budget: College and Career Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - However, the program has a significant number of additional program requirements,  such as having pathways be aligned with UC/CSU course requirements and providing students with integrated support services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4562

The 2024-25 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Feb 15, 2024 - We find the proposed training funds to be premature since the approved list of screening tools has not been finalized and funds are being added to the block grant earlier than needed under the traditional claims ‑based process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4839