^[PDF] 22_Child Care and Preschool Changes.indd

22_Child Care and Preschool Changes.indd 2015-16 Child Care and Preschool Changes (In Millions) Change Proposition 98 Other Total Reimbursement Rates Increases the Standard Reimbursement Rate 5 percent starting July 1, 2015 $38 $23 $61 Increases Regional Market Rate 4.5 percent starting October 1, 2015 — 44 44 Annualizes Regional Market Rate increase initiated January 1, 2015 — 34 34 Increases
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/3299/14.pdf

^[PDF] Analysis of Higher Education May Revision Proposals

.) • Expand Online Course Offerings. The university also will expand upon efforts begun in recent years to increase the number of online courses it offers. As part of this effort, UC will convene a group of industry leaders during summer 2015 to identify which online certificate and master’s degree programs could benefit California’s workforce. • Implement New Way of Calculating Educational Costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/budget/may-revision/higher-ed-051815.pdf

^[PDF] Cap-and-Trade Revenues: Strategies to Promote Legislative Priorities

(For more information on the ways in which the administration’s approach to the Second Investment Plan is lacking, see our September 2015 online report Framework for Cap-and-Trade Investment Plan Needs Further Development.)
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3328/cap-trade-revenues-012116.pdf

^[PDF] The 2016-17 Budget: Analysis of Child Care and Preschool Proposals

Though direct contracts are somewhat more administratively burdensome than LCFF allocations, they still can keep funding linked with children served and track slots allotted to each provider. Oversight and Accountability.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3367/child-care-proposals-022316.pdf

^[PDF] The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

The Governor grants the segments considerable discretion in deciding how to spend these base increases, but, as in previous years, he loosely links these increases to expectations regarding UC and CSU performance.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3528/budget-overview-2017.pdf

^[PDF] The 2017-18 Budget: The New IT Project Approval and Funding Process

Strides in private sector technology allow the public to access tools that improve their daily lives—from online portals that facilitate communicating with doctors to mobile applications that schedule restaurant reservations.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3562/IT-Project-021717.pdf

^[PDF] Measuring CalWORKs Performance

Making It Challenging to Directly Link Program Operations to Outcomes . . . The presence of other factors that affect program outcomes can make it difficult to distinguish the role of the program from the role of other factors in bringing about the observed outcome.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3702/measuring-CalWORKs-090617.pdf

^[PDF] Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Businesses must submit their applications online and there is no application fee. The applicants request a tax credit amount and provide some information about their intended hiring and investment plans.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2017/3709/california-competes-tax-credit-103117.pdf

^[PDF] Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Furthermore, any such benefits would have to be weighed against the significant additional capital outlay and operational costs of providing corpsmember slots in a residential center setting compared to nonresidential slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3742/Improving-outcome-CA-conservation-corps.pdf

^[PDF] The 2018-19 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Due to some campuses not guaranteeing admission to local students and some eligible students not being referred to campuses with available slots, a proportion of eligible applicants (10 percent in 2016-17) are not being admitted anywhere in the system .
https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2018/3748/higher-ed-analysis-021518.pdf