The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major UC Proposals

Feb 2, 2022 - Referral Pools. UC refers students who are not admitted to their campuses of choice to less selective campuses. UC Merced is UC ’s sole referral campus for freshman applicants, and UC Merced and UC Riverside are UC ’s referral campuses for transfer students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4511

Overview of Mental Health Services for College Students

Dec 10, 2021 - Campuses commonly maintain directories of community providers for referral purposes. Some campuses also provide additional support to students with the referral process, such as helping students make phone calls to providers or navigate their health insurance coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4481

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code allows states to administer college savings accounts that provide certain tax advantages. SIB launched California ’s 529 program, known as Scholarshare 529, in 1999.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - The law library offers a range of resources, including primary and secondary materials on American law, federal and state appellate court decisions, session laws, codes and statutes, federal agency rulings, and attorney general opinions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major CCC Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - To the extent these exogenous factors are stronger in driving student behavior than college advertisements or phone banks, student outreach might not be a particularly promising use of one ‑time funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4531

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - From 2022 ‑23 through 2024 ‑25, CSAC determined what percentage of each student ’s remaining costs to cover based on the annual MCS appropriation. In 2022 ‑23, award coverage was 26  percent, followed by 36  percent in 2023 ‑24, and 35  percent in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Every year since the inception of GI 2025 in 2016 ‑17, CSU has used a different formula to allocate new GI 2025 funds, such that campuses have not known one year from the next what it takes to obtain program funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - State law does not specify what share of these funds would go to community colleges. If the Legislature were to allocate the funds in proportion to the current split of Proposition 98 spending between the two segments, an estimated $608 million would go to community colleges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2021-22 Budget: “Cradle to Career” Data System

Mar 26, 2021 - Most projects also contract with independent verification and validation service provid ers to monitor the technical implementation of the project, including code reviews and system testing. The figure on the next page shows the development of the PAL phases through project oversight.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4409

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - (The survey defines “very close ” to mean the job is in the same field, while it defines “close ” to mean that the job is in a different field but still uses what the student learned.) We  do not know, however, whether these respondents are representative of CTE students more broadly, especially because only a small share of students receiving the survey choose to respond (between 14 percent and 33  percent  annually).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098