The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Child Care and State Preschool

Nov 17, 2023 - Other Child Care Actions Pauses Child Care Slot Expansion by One Year. The 2021 ‑22 budget agreement included a plan to add 200,000 child care slots by 2025 ‑26. Since 2021 ‑22, the state has added about 146,000 new slots, which more than doubled the number of subsidized child care slots in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4817

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 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Typically, the total amount of state funding provided to AP agencies is based on the amount they received in the previous year, adjusted for any changes in reimbursement rates or slots specified in the most recent state budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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 Budget: Early Education Analysis [Publication Details]

Feb 21, 2020 - In this report, we provide an overview of the Governor’s early education proposals, then analyze his three major early education proposals. Specifically, we analyze his proposals to (1) expand the number of full‑day preschool slots, (2) create a new department to administer child care programs, and (3) fund facilities for more preschool programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4167

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - These are excess funds that were initially provided for slot and rate increases, and not part of the collective bargaining set-aside. This spring, CDE issued a request for applications from providers to award up to $33  million Proposition  98 funding for additional expansion slots beginning 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2019-20 Budget: Analysis of Governor’s Preschool Slot Estimate

May 6, 2019 - Because full-day slots cost more than part-day slots, fewer children overall would be served absent additional funding to cover the higher cost of full-day slots. If half of the part-day slots converted into full-day slots, the Legislature would need to add $360  million to serve the same number of children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4027

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 2019-20 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Mar 4, 2019 - Given this would be such a large increase, we think non ‑LEAs might be unable to accommodate all 10, 000 n ew slots in 2019 ‑20. Although non ‑LEAs filled all available slots when slots were last earmarked for them (in 2015 ‑16), they received a much smaller number of additional slots (1,20 0) t hat year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3956

The 2015-16 Budget: Major Features of the Adopted Plan (Child Care and Preschool)

Jun 19, 2015 - Of the increase in slots for non-CalWORKs programs, about 7,500 are full-day preschool slots and 2,90 0 are part-day preschool slots. (These reflect annualized slots, as the budget funds additional slots for the full- and part-day programs starting at different times.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3276