The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - With Another Manager, CalKIDS Staffing Would Remain Top Heavy. The CalKIDS program currently has one manager position for every one staff position. This ratio is much higher than the state average. As of March  2024, the average statewide ratio of supervisorial positions (such as SSMIs) to non-supervisorial positions (such as AGPAs) is one-to-six.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Sep 11, 2024 - These one-time funds are on top of $637  million in ongoing General Fund, bringing the total program funding level to $926  million in 2024-25 (compared to $803  million in 2023-24). This program provides UC and CSU students with awards that cover a certain percentage of their remaining cost of attendance after accounting for their available resources (consisting of other gift aid, a student contribution, and in some cases a parent contribution).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4926

Redesigning California's Adult Education Funding Model

Dec 13, 2022 - On top of this base rate, colleges receive additional funding for each student enrolled who is low income and additional funding based on performance, as measured by graduation rates and various other student outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4652

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major UC Proposals

Feb 2, 2022 - Historically, the state has expected UC to draw its freshman admits from the top 12.5  percent of the state ’s high school graduates. As we have noted in previous analyses, UC has been found to be drawing from beyond these pools in recent years and likely will continue to do so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4511

The 2020-21 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 20, 2020 - Specifically, CSU in 2014 ‑15 was drawing from the top 41  p ercent of high school graduates rather than the top one ‑third. Updated information from the California Department of Education shows that an even larger share of high school graduates (about 47  p ercent) have been completing college ‑preparatory coursework (known as “A through G ” courses) required for CSU admission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4168

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - These costs would largely be on top of the future project costs cited in the previous  paragraph. Moving to One Systemwide Vendor Can Raise Risks and Costs. While centralized procurement sometimes results in lower local costs, giving all systemwide business to a single ERP vendor has the risk of increasing overall costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2021-22 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor’s May Revision

May 17, 2021 - (We also include links to Appendix tables at the end of this post and the top left of this page. These appendix tables itemize select proposals by policy area based on our understanding at this time.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Higher Education Budget Proposals

Jan 26, 2022 - Whereas the Governor proposes enrollment growth funding on top of the base increases in 2022 ‑23, the universities would be required to accommodate 1  percent annual enrollment growth within their base increases over the remainder of the compact period (2023 ‑24 through 2026 ‑27).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4499

The 2021-22 Budget: California Institutes for Science and Innovation

Mar 2, 2021 - On top of this core funding, the institutes receive additional funds from federal grants, private donations, and other external sources for specific research and other limited‑term endeavors. State law requires UC to match two dollars from external and nonstate sources for each dollar of state funding appropriated to the institutes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4394

The 2023-24 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 16, 2022 - (Technically, the bottom of the shaded area corresponds to the 10th percentile of potential scenarios and the top corresponds to the 90th percentile.) The uncertainty in our estimates increases significantly over the outlook period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648