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

Jan 13, 2025 - As such, if the Legislature wishes to have substantively more reserves available when responding to downturns or other emergencies, we would recommend also changing the formulas that set aside funds each year to increase how much is saved.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - More broadly, the Legislature might also want to consider changes to how AP agencies are funded. In a previous analysis of AP agency funding, we make several recommendations that would better align funding for AP agencies with the costs to administer voucher ‑based programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

Child Care Attendance Records: Comparing Paper and Electronic Processes

Dec 12, 2018 - At a minimum, AP agencies use these records to verify which children received care and ho w much care they received that month. AP agencies do not pay a provider until that provider has submitted its monthly attendance records.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3908

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - Additionally, based on our conversations with the administration, there may be as much as $185  million in carryover Proposition  64 funds that were allocated to child care in prior years. The Legislature could ask the administration for greater information on how it plans to spend Proposition  64 funds moving forward, and for greater detail on the total amount of carryover funds and use of these carryover funds in the budget year and beyond.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672

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

Jan 13, 2023 - While the fiscal impact of this reauthorization would be small in the budget window —an estimated $300  million in 2023 ‑ 24 —the effect would be much larger in future years, rising to roughly $2  billion in General Fund savings as early as 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Specifically, we recommend the Legislature set enrollment expectations for each segment, decide how much to provide for graduation and other core student support initiatives, and determine how much to provide for compensation increases and other operating costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - In future years, the Legislature could decide how many new slots to approve based on the take ‑up in 2019 ‑20. Keep Work Requirement and Give New Slots to Providers Operating at Least a 10 ‑Hour Day.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - This allows providers to receive their full contract amount regardless of how many children are enrolled in the program. Prior to the pandemic, reimbursement for direct contract programs was based on the lesser of reimbursable program costs, the contract amount, and the reimbursement rate multiplied by attendance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2021-22 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Expansion Package

Feb 5, 2021 - A much greater incentive to achieve universal preschool for four ‑year olds would be to allow school districts to generate a full year of attendance ‑based funding for children born after December 2.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4350

The 2020-21 Budget: CalWORKs Child Care Outlook

Nov 21, 2019 - To project caseload, we use the most recent caseload data and estimate how many children will enter and exit each stage of CalWORKs child care during each year of the outlook period. We make several assumptions in developing these estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4115