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

Jan 13, 2025 - First, some proposals provide short ‑term budget savings that create more budget capacity. These total $2.2  billion. Second, the Governor ’s budget includes new discretionary proposals that use budget capacity by increasing spending or reducing revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Child Care Attendance Records: Comparing Paper and Electronic Processes

Dec 12, 2018 - Of the 76 AP agencies, 51 are nonprofit community–based organizations, 14 are county of fices of education, 9 are county welfare departments, 1 i s a school district, and 1 i s a city government. AP Agencies Have a Variety of Administrative Responsibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3908

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - These steps can entail working with the city regarding the zoning requirements of the property, making renovations and repairs, and ensuring the facility is reviewed and approved by Community Care Licensing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - As mentioned above, the Governor ’s budget creates a placeholder ensuring sufficient funding to comply with the statutory requirement that 2025 ‑26 rates be no less than the rates as of June 30, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The Governor ’s budget provides $ 31  m illion from the General Fund in 2019 ‑ 20 —to be expended over a few years —to backfill wildfire ‑related property tax loses for cities, counties, and special districts associated with certain major wildfires that have occurred since 2015.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2023-24 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten and State Preschool Proposals

Feb 14, 2023 - Creates Additional Requirements for TK Staff. The Governor ’s budget proposes additional requirements for adults assigned to TK classrooms. In practice, these would be additional requirements for instructional aides.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Serving two ‑year olds in State Preschool, however, would create some administrative challenges. Providers would be required to increase staffing, as the child ‑to ‑staff ratios for two ‑year olds are half the ratio for preschoolers (4 ‑to ‑1 and 8 ‑to ‑1, respectively).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Child Care and Preschool

Oct 27, 2022 - The California Department of Education (CDE) is required to (1)  provide technical assistance to providers in meeting the targets, and (2)  create a waiver process for providers not able to meet the targets.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4643

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - The expiration of the family fee waiver likely will create barriers to care for low ‑income families who are not able to afford family fees. (Families that began receiving subsidized child care during the pandemic may not be aware that the state has typically assessed fees.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

The 2020-21 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2020 - In many of these cases, the Governor proposes creating a new department or reorganizing an existing department. Among others, the administration proposes creating: the Department of Early Childhood Development, the Department of Better Jobs and Higher Wages, and the Office of Health Care Affordability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135