The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - Facility challenges appear to be less of an issue, with 75  percent of school districts reporting they have adequate space to meet the projected enrollment of TK students. Some school districts report planning to make facility updates, such as paving an area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - This would likely involve purchasing fresh ingredients, hiring more staff to prepare meals, expanding kitchen space, and developing menus. Limited infrastructure and equipment could also be key barriers for LEAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - This  option would require hiring additional TK teachers and would require additional classroom space, as the smaller class sizes means more classrooms would be needed. A district that has constrained facilities or challenges hiring TK teachers, but could more easily hire instructional aides, likely would find the first option more  feasible.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

Climate Change Impacts Across California - K-12 Education

Apr 5, 2022 - Lower ‑income families are likely disproportionately impacted by disruptions to education and child care because they often have fewer available resources to help mitigate the disruptions —including challenges such as less access to computers, unreliable internet connections, inadequate space at home for remote learning, less capacity for adults to monitor student engagement,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4586

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - The  LCAP template includes a “general information ” section that provides a space for COEs to describe their schools and the students they serve. COEs sometimes use that section to more broadly describe available services for students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - These districts indicated that due to space and other constraints, they no longer were interested in accepting students from other districts. The last district indicated that permissive interdistrict permit policies adopted by other districts in its county had made its participation in the District of Choice program unnecessary.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329

Review of the Funding Determination Process for Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools

Feb 29, 2024 - This restriction applies to any school facilities, resource centers, meeting spaces, and satellite facilities. Charter schools are able to enroll students from within the county their authorizer operates, as well as from all adjacent counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4870

The 2022-23 Budget: Expanded Learning Programs

Feb 16, 2022 - For 2021 ‑22, statute specifies that all participating districts are required to offer expanded learning opportunity programs to all of their EL/LI students attending classroom ‑based programs, and must provide access (meaning to ensure that space in the program is available) to at least 50  percent of these students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4545

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For  example, in the San Francisco Bay Area alone, a recent study led by the Bay Conservation and Development Commission estimated that with an anticipated four feet of flooding in the region from sea‑level rise over the next 40 to 100 years, 13,000 existing housing units and 104,000 existing job spaces will no longer be usable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575