The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Requirement to Serve 10   Percent Students With Disabilities Similar to Head Start. According  to the administration, its proposal is intended to emulate that of Head Start, which requires that 10  percent of slots be set aside for children with disabilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - Preschool Facility Funds May Be Available to LEAs That Will Not Be Awarded Slots Down the Line. The Governor ’s preschool facility proposal is disconnected from the process that awards LEAs additional State Preschool slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Early Education

Oct 26, 2020 - Decreases Amount Provided for Slots. The budget includes a $47  million reduction for child care and preschool slots. Figure 2 shows a decrease in State Preschool slots offset by a net increase of both ongoing and temporary slots for the Alternative Payment (AP) Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4289

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - Figure  2 shows the programs and associated funding that would be shifted. Under the proposal, all of the state ’s federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funding would be allocated through DSS.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The budget includes $ 125  m illion (non ‑Proposition  98 General Fund) ongoing to provide 10,000 full ‑day preschool slots for children from low ‑income families. The funding is to be the first of three augmentations, with the intent to provide a total of 30,000 additional slots to serve all low ‑income four ‑year olds by 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - The Governor’s proposal to delay the slot expansion plan by not adding additional child care slots in 2023‑24 would save $134 million General Fund. The proposed delay in the slot expansion plan seems reasonable given state’s budget problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2018-19 Budget: Child Care Programs—Analysis of Governor’s Hold Harmless Rate Proposal

Mar 19, 2018 - More Than One-Third of Slots Funded Using Hold Harmless Rate. As Figure  3 shows, slightly less than two-thirds of slots (63  percent) funded by the state use the most recent survey to determine their rate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3787

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - Although State Preschool programs can serve younger students, 63  p ercent of statewide enrollment comes from four ‑year olds. In some school districts, TK expansion could shift capacity to serve four ‑year olds from State Preschool to TK, instead of increasing the total number of children served.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - An additional 2,500 slots beginning January 1, 2020 would have a half ‑year cost of $ 16  m illion in 2019 ‑20, growing to a full ‑year cost of $ 31  m illion in 2020 ‑21. In future years, the Legislature could decide how many new slots to approve based on the take ‑up in 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - Recent budgets have set the SFEU between $3.5  billion and $4  billion. The Governor proposes a $4.5  billion SFEU balance for the end of 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951