The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - State Support Has Been Growing Somewhat More Quickly Than Tuition Revenue. Ten years ago, UC relied somewhat more heavily on student tuition and fee revenue (54  percent) and less heavily on state support (41  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - The Constitution requires the state to deposit Proposition 98 funding into this reserve when the state receives high levels of capital gains revenue and the minimum guarantee is growing quickly relative to inflation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - The UC Merced experience also suggests that overall college going and educational attainment in the vicinity of a new campus might not advance more quickly than in many other areas of the state, at least within the initial 20 years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2023-24 Budget: Student Housing

Mar 9, 2023 - Using the state ’s ongoing financial aid programs to assist with nontuition costs potentially could benefit many more students much more quickly than the housing grant program. Moreover, using the segments ’ rapid rehousing programs might be a more targeted approach to helping those students who need immediate housing assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4733

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

Nov 16, 2022 - The picture could improve sooner if the economy grows more quickly than our forecast or the statutory COLA rate is smaller. Alternatively, it might improve after 2026 ‑27 if the state experiences a recession during the forecast period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4648

The 2019-20 Budget: Creating an Integrated Education Data System

May 6, 2019 - A JPA has the added potential benefit of leveraging some administrative and technology infrastructure already in place at the segments —resulting in possible efficiencies and the ability to organize a governing entity relatively quickly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4026

The 2017-18 Budget: Analysis of the May Revision Education Proposals

May 15, 2017 - A law enacted in 1990 requires the state to provide a supplemental appropriation when Test  3 is operative and the minimum guarantee otherwise would grow less quickly than the rest of the state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3670

The 2023-24 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 31, 2023 - Importantly, pursuing tuition increases in 2023 ‑24 would require quick action over the next few months whereas pursuing them for 2024 ‑25 would allow ample time for consultation and notification. Whether begun in 2023 ‑24 or 2024 ‑25, the state could encourage CSU to develop a tuition policy similar to UC ’s tuition policy —that is, a policy that results in gradual, predictable, and moderate increases in student charges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4664

The 2022-23 Budget: Student Housing

Apr 8, 2022 - On the one hand, approving more projects this year would enable campuses to commence with projects sooner, thereby increasing housing stock more quickly and avoiding higher construction costs in future years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4589

Cal Facts 2018 [Publication Details]

Dec 6, 2018 - With a state as big, as populous, and as complex as California, quickly summarizing how its economy or state budget works is impossible. Instead, Cal Facts is a visual guide—using a variety of different charts—to the state's economy, revenues, and major program trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3905