The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Feb 13, 2025 - This brief examines the estimates of the Proposition 98 guarantee in the Governor’s budget and assesses the overall structure of the Governor’s plan for K-12 funding. It also examines a few of the larger spending proposals and the proposal to delay a $1.6 billion settle-up payment. Update (2/21/25): This brief has been updated to reflect our office’s estimate of the K-12 COLA (2.26 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - a Governor ’s settle ‑up proposal Yes
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Early college high schools partner with a community college or public university that allows students to earn a diploma and up to two years of college credit by graduation.) The remaining $100  million was available for grants of up to $100,000 to establish CCAP agreements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The proposed program would repay up to $20,000 in educational debt for staff working in priority schools. Grantees would receive up to $5,000 for each year they worked in a priority school, for up to four years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Proposition   98 Guarantee Revised Up in 2024 ‑25. Our estimate of the guarantee in 2024 ‑25 is up $3   billion (2.6   percent) relative to the June  2024 estimate ( Figure   3 ). This  increase reflects our higher estimates of General Fund and local property tax revenue.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - The Governor ’s budget proposal includes $19  billion total funds in 2025 ‑26, up $3.2  billion (20  percent) over the revised 2024 ‑25  level ($15.8  billion). Of the proposed 2025 ‑26 total, $12.4  billion is from the General Fund, up $2.2  billion (21  percent) over the revised 2024 ‑25  level ($10.2  billion General Fund).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Any level above zero is up to the discretion of the Legislature. Recent budgets have set the SFEU between $3.5  billion and $4  billion. The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - This would mean districts have less ELOP  funding for programming beyond the minimum requirements, but free up several hundreds of millions of dollars that could be redirected to other education priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - In 2024 ‑25, the federal government reimburses schools up to $4.54 for lunches served at the free rate and up to 53 cents for lunches served at the paid rate. Federal meal reimbursement rates receive an annual cost ‑of ‑living adjustment (COLA) based on a federal price index that reflects changes in the costs of meals purchased away from home.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - In 2022 ‑23, the Center raised Fellows salaries by 9.75  percent, up to the current level of $3,253 per month. If adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index (CA CPI), that monthly salary rate would be $3,447 in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989