Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - The components are: (1)  a  base allocation linked to enrollment (about 70  percent of formula funding),  (2)  a supplemental allocation linked to low ‑income student counts (about 20  percent of formula funding), and (3)  a student success allocation linked to specified student outcomes (about 10  percent of formula funding).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Jan 14, 2019 - The Legislature, however, might consider more targeted initiatives linked with specific goals. For example, it could link any one ‑time workforce funding to helping with a transition to a new child care reimbursement rate system and/or higher minimum program standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions 90 $6,314.1 For a variety of reasons, we do not reflect certain capital outlay projects in the figure or linked table. Specifically, to avoid double counting previously provided funds or because specific data are not available, we do not include projects for which funding is: (1)  continuously appropriated,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Estimated State Savings From Proposition 47

Feb 26, 2025 - We recognize that any estimates will be subject to significant uncertainty due to the limited amount of actual data since the enactment of Proposition  36. However, the flaws we identify above are conceptual problems that can be improved through reasonable assumptions in areas where actual data is lacking.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4991

The 2025-26 Budget: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

Feb 25, 2025 - Such a plan would include a description of the specific data points and benchmarks that will be used to measure progress. To the extent certain needed data are not currently colle cted, the plan would identify how that data will be collected, including the instruments or counting rules that will be used to gather it, the data systems that will be used to manage it, and the staff responsible for doing this.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4986

The 2025-26 Budget: SB 678 County Probation Grant Program

Apr 11, 2025 - Specifically, including 2021 data is problematic because failure-to-prison rates during 2021 were artificially low due to factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic rather than county performance. For example, because state prisons were not admittin g people for a portion of 2021 to prevent the spread of the virus, some people who should have been counted in failure-to-prison rates were not.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5031

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Recommend Linking Base Increases With Clear, Explicit Expectations. By failing to link base funding increases to clear, specific state spending priorities, the administration effectively relinquishes important budget responsibilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2024-25 Spending Plan: Judiciary and Criminal Justice

Sep 10, 2024 - Figure 3 Summary of Total CARE Program Funding General Fund (In Millions) Training, Data Collection, and Other Activities 20.2 $106.9 $107.6 CARE = Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment; CalHHS = California Health and Human Services Agency; and DHCS = Department of Health Care Services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4924

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - Available Data Suggest Little Growth in Pool of Eligible Students in Near Term. Demographic projections show the 18 to 24 year –old population (which comprises 93  percent of UC ’s undergraduate student body) declining 6  percent by 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2016-17 Budget: Governor’s General Fund Deferred Maintenance Proposal

Feb 12, 2016 - However, to the extent that the changes in reported need levels are a result of differences in reporting methodologies, the information on these reported backlogs might not be sufficiently reliable to inform decision making about how to most appropriately address a department ’s deferred maintenance challenges and might instead point to the importance of improved facility condition assessments or other data collection.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3353