The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - As   Figure  1 shows, free, reduced, and paid meals generate the same total reimbursement for LEAs. A meal reimbursed by the federal government at the free rate receives the smallest amount of state funds, whereas a meal reimbursed at the paid rate receives the largest amount of state funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - Providers must satisfy specified performance metrics in order to receive the 10   percent of the rate model reserved for quality incentive payments. Providers can earn the 10   percent portion of the rate model from January 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 by enrolling in DDS ’s new Provider Directory.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Those that did not want to participate in the program were required to notify CDE by September 30 of the grant year. Governor’s Proposals The Governor ’s budget includes three proposals for one ‑time Proposition  98 General Fund related to coaches.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Fellows work 10 months in the judicial branch, 10.5 months in the executive branch, and 11 months in the Assembly and Senate. Fellows Must Meet Program Eligibility Requirements. To apply for the program, one must be at least 20 years old and have earned a bachelor ’s degree.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - Both programs generally require applicants to provide a local match of $2 for every $1 they receive in funding. (For K ‑12 SWP, ROCPs are only required to provide a local match of $1 for every $1 they receive in funding.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - This would mean districts have less ELOP  funding for programming beyond the minimum requirements, but free up several hundreds of millions of dollars that could be redirected to other education priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

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

Jan 13, 2025 - These solutions yielded General Fund savings of $11  billion through 2025 ‑26. The Governor ’s budget reduces this amount by $1.3  billion through 2025 ‑26. The reason for the reduction is the recent voter approval of Proposition  35 (2024), which requires the state to spend less MCO tax money on offsetting General Fund spending and more money on provider rate increases.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan

Feb 13, 2025 - The Governor ’s proposal also recognizes that the guarantee is unusually volatile in 2024 ‑25 due to (1)  the state ’s reliance on unpredictable stock market growth for its higher revenue estimates and (2)  the high sensitivity of the guarantee to changes in revenue estimates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - As Figure  3 shows, both of these estimates are lower than the administration ’s proposed add ‑on. (We are working with the administration to better understand the details of its methodology.) In both of our estimates, the add ‑on is intended to cover the cost needed for staffing beyond 1 teacher for 24 students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968