The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Assessment Key Factors to Consider in Deciding How Much Proposition  2 Funding to Commit Now. Under the Governor ’s budget, the state would commit roughly half of CCC Proposition  2 funding. (The Chancellor ’s Office intends to request about $400  million in Proposition  2 funding for additional projects in 2026-27 and the remainder in 2027-28.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities [Publication Details]

Mar 18, 2025 - This post assesses the Governor’s proposals to fund community college capital outlay projects under Proposition 2, the new education facilities bond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5017

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Technically, it reduces the Test 2 and Test 3 funding levels from what they otherwise would be in the year following the increase. These lower levels are then used in the comparison with Test 1 (which is unaffected).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Specifically, the Governor ’s budget assumes (1)  a $620  million ($230  million General Fund) reduction through the permanent elimination of 6,500 vacant positions and associated funding and (2)  a $1.5  billion ($820  million General Fund) in 2024 ‑25 and $2  billion ($1.2  billion General Fund) in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing reduction to state operations expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2024-25 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 29, 2024 - Anticipating challenges with the new form, the state, as part of last year ’s budget package, extended the application deadline for several state financial aid programs (including most Cal Grant award types and Middle Class Scholarships) from March  2, 2024 to April 2, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4865

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - The Department of Finance has not yet indicated whether or when it would act to recapture the associated $2  million. We recommend the Legislature adopt provisional budget language reverting the funds as part of its budget closeout activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - (Recent budgets have enacted SFEU balances around $2  billion to $4  billion. The SFEU is used to cover costs of unanticipated expenditures.) Relative to our November estimates, this set ‑aside increases the size of the budget problem. $2   Billion in Discretionary Spending.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Sep 11, 2024 - The state postponed the 2024-25 application deadline for most Cal Grant awards from March 2 to May 2 due to implementation issues with the new FAFSA form. This resulted in CSAC receiving key application data after preparing its original spring estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4926

Overview of Cal Grant Reform [Publication Details]

Mar 14, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4742

Overview of Middle Class Scholarship (MCS) Expansion [Publication Details]

Mar 14, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4743