The 2024-25 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2024 - Health care premiums in 2024 are increasing 11   percent —more than double the average annual rate of increase over the past five years. CSU estimates its associated costs for active employees in 2024 ‑25 will increase $78  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4842

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - Some of the growth is at UC and CSU (11  percent increase at both segments), primarily due to their planned tuition increases. (Cal Grants provide full tuition coverage for eligible students attending these segments [as well as nontuition coverage for certain students].)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - As Figure 11 shows, CSU’s total spending on employee health care costs has been increasing over time, reaching $779 million in 2024‑25. Growth in health care costs has been particularly notable the past three years (with the highest growth in 2023‑24 at 10 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Education

Oct 17, 2019 - Of this amount, $4.7  billion (58  percent) is state General Fund, $3.3  billion (41  percent) comes from student tuition and fee revenue, and $64  million (0.8  percent) is other state funding (primarily lottery revenue).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4096

Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - Under the new Higher Education Student Housing program, the state has approved 35 new student housing construction projects (consisting of 15 CCC projects, 11 CSU projects, 5 UC projects, and 4 intersegmental projects).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - As   Figure  11 shows, equity gaps in graduation rates by race/ethnicity, income, and first ‑generation status persist. (As discussed in the box below, equity gaps in graduation rates by gender also persist.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Third Round of Federal Higher Education Relief Funding

May 3, 2021 - The department announced the new allocations on May 11. As Figure  4 shows, higher education institutions in California are to receive $5  billion in base funds —slightly more than the total amount of HEERF funds provided across the first two rounds ($4.9  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4421

The 2019-20 May Revision: Analysis of the May Revision Education Proposals

May 15, 2019 - Alternative Payment Program Slots Funds Additional Child Care Slots With Proposition 64 Revenue. In the May Revision, the administration specifies its intent to use a portion of revenues from Proposition 64 (marijuana legalization) for Alternative Payment child care slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4048

Interim Evaluation of Community College Basic Skills Transformation Grants

Dec 5, 2019 - The CCC  Chancellor ’s Office deemed 64 o f the 85  applications as meeting minimum requirements. Grant funding was distributed to these colleges in July 2016, with the expectation that colleges would begin implementation during the 2016 ‑17 academic year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4120

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - Figure  1 shows CLSF enrollment over the past 25 years. Since 2000, CLSF enrollment peaked in 2009 at 1,336 full ‑time equivalent (FTE) students, then fell notably from 2011 ‑12 to 2015 ‑16, before leveling off for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014