The 2011-12 Budget: To Defer or Not Defer? An Analysis of The Effects of K-12 Payment Deferrals

After facing a large midyear budget deficit due to the dot –com bust, the state was forced to reduce spending in the middle of 2001 –02. Rather than make programmatic K –12 reductions in the middle of the year, the state deferred $1.1 billion in K –12 payments from June to July 2002 in order to achieve 2001 –02 budget savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/2011/education/k12_deferrals_012411.aspx

The 2012-13 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services Budget Update

We note that there have been other changes to the IHSS program, such as a change in the types of crimes that, if committed, could prevent a person from becoming a provider, that are not directly linked to budget savings and therefore are not included in this update.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis/2012/ss/supportive-services-031912.aspx

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: A Proposition 98 Roadmap

In future years, the Legislature could expand this pilot and provide more grant funding to districts that is linked to improvements in student performance. Also, as noted above, we think part of the low student success rates is due to restrictions and disincentives inherent in the way community colleges are funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/education/ed_04_anl07.aspx

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: Career Technical Education

In 2006-07, the emphasis on local pathways was reduced and new grants were available for other types of “system development” activities, such as establishing a vocational education teacher “pipeline,” articulation between community colleges and four-year universities, and linking CCC economic development programs to CTE programs.  
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/education/ed_05_anl07.aspx

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: California Education Network

The administration decided that one viable option to bring connectivity to K-12 entities was to expand upon the statewide high-speed network that already linked the majority of California’s higher education institutes.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/education/ed_06_anl07.aspx

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: Child Care and Development

Effectively, the Governor’s budget does not expand wrap around child care but instead converts the approximately 1,100 slots funded with one-time monies in 2006-07 into ongoing slots. Wrap Around Child Care Shown to Promote Preschool Attendance.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/education/ed_09_anl07.aspx

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: CALFED Bay-Delta Program

To facilitate legislative review of the performance measures and to link performance measures with the budget process, we recommend adoption of the following supplemental report language: Item 540-001-0001.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/resources/res_03_anl07.aspx

LAO 2007 Budget Analysis: State Water Resources Control Board (3940)

Moreover, the board has a number of new IT projects under development, each of which is specifically designed to link with CIWQS and will generally require the regional boards to change the way they conduct data entry.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2007/resources/res_15_3940_anl07.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Restructuring Local Assistance for Public Safety

Instead of linking the JJCPA program with the unrelated COPS program, we recommend the enactment of state legislation to eliminate the COPS/JJCPA programs and consolidate the JJCPA and the Juvenile Probation and Camps Funding (see further discussion of this program later in this analysis).
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/crim_justice/cj_anl08002.aspx

LAO 2008 Budget Analysis: Other Issues

This link to national performance standards is also provided through the federal National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP annually assesses a sample of 4th and 8th grade students in each state.
https://lao.ca.gov/analysis_2008/education/ed_anl08016.aspx