The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Of the total amount provided, $15 million was from federal IDEA funding and restricted to special education teacher candidates. 516.5 National Board Certified Teacher Certification Incentive Program 2021 ‑22 Provides financial awards to teachers holding National Board certifications who teach at schools at least 55 percent of students are EL/LI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce [Publication Details]

Mar 7, 2025 - In this brief, we assess the Governor’s 2025-26 educator workforce proposals and provide associated recommendations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5012

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Other Ongoing CTE Programs California Partnership Academies. The state provides $21  million ongoing to high schools to operate small learning communities that integrate a career theme with academic education in grades 10 through 12.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Update on Implementation of New Firearm and Ammunition Tax

Feb 19, 2025 - This is because Chapter  231 makes these registration certificates an additional requirement to be licensed by DOJ to sell firearms and ammunition. Accordingly, revocation of a registration certificate would make a business unable to sell firearms or ammunition in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4970

The 2025-26 Budget: Single Sales Factor for Financial Institutions [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - However, these firms report profits at the national level, therefore each state must determine how much of a corporation ’s U.S. profits are subject to corporation taxes in that state. States that tax corporate income use a formula-based approach that incorporates the percentage of a firm ’s national property, payroll, and/or sales in that state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/821

The 2025-26 Budget: Single Sales Factor for Financial Institutions [EconTax Blog]

Feb 13, 2025 - However, these firms report profits at the national level, therefore each state must determine how much of a corporation ’s U.S. profits are subject to corporation taxes in that state. States that tax corporate income use a formula-based approach that incorporates the percentage of a firm ’s national property, payroll, and/or sales in that state.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/821

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - CDE would be required to make the screener and training available to districts at no cost by March  1, 2026. Additionally, CDE would have to expend or encumber the funding provided by June 30, 2028. Requires Use of New Screening Tool by 2027-28.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - The CSU system indicates it has thousands of service-learning courses where students are able to volunteer with local organizations while receiving academi c credit. Such efforts exist at the other public higher education segments too.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Conversely, Black Americans have historically been underrepresented in both Hollywood, and many higher ‑paying fields more generally, relative to their share of the national population. Therefore, representation proportionate to California ’s population is simply one of many statistics that can be considered as part of the state ’s equity objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - At the federal level, the National Emergencies Act (NEA) was enacted in 1976 to rein in presidential emergency powers and provides that a national emergency will end automatically after one year unless the President publishes a notice of renewal in the Federal Register.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029