The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - The measure does not specify how the funds are to be allocated among these specific purposes. In addition to this state bond, voters in the same election approved 14 local general oblig ation bonds totaling $9.9  billion for community college facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - Governor Presents No Plan for How to Honor Out ‑Year Commitments. The Governor ’s budget continues to make out ‑year funding commitments to UC in fiscal years when the state is projected to have deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - Rather than making commitments in advance, the Legislature could determine each year how much support it can afford to provide CSU in light of overall fiscal conditions and competing budget priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Apart from this grant round, Learning Lab had begun analyzing how to ramp down its activities consistent with last year ’s agreement to stop funding the program beginning in 2026-27. Governor ’s Proposal Governor Proposes Retaining Learning Lab and Shifting to Government Operations Agency (GovOps).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Because districts have broad discretion over how to spend apportionments, providing a COLA also gives districts the flexibility to address local spending  priorities. Proposed COLA Rate Could Change by May.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The Governor’s budget for higher education for 2026‑27 is billions of dollars higher than the current year, with no plan for how to sustain that funding in 2027‑28. New Higher Education Spending Is at Risk Given Stock Market Signals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - Most of these campuses are looking at downsizing while simultaneously searching for new enrollment opportunities. CSU has expressed concerns more generally given its systemwide budget shortfalls in 2023 ‑24 and 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Without required reporting on how much campuses are spending on particular GI 2025 activities and how many and which students are using them, the Legislature cannot know which activities are most cost ‑effective.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

An Evaluation of CSU's Cross-Campus Online Education Program

Jan 3, 2018 - In particular, the site ’s search engine is very awkward and makes finding courses very difficult. The major problem is that the site only provides search results by specific course title or course code.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3725

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

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https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127