The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Districts would be required to administer the screener within 60 days of a student beginning to participate in TK, but no later than December 15. Districts would also be required to share with CDE the number of mul tilingual learners identified using the screener.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update (2024 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Mar 6, 2025 - Proposition 64 created two excise taxes on cannabis: a 15 percent retail excise tax and a cultivation tax. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2022 (AB 195, Committee on Budget) eliminated the cultivation tax on July 1, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/824

Cannabis Tax Revenue Update (2024 Q4) [EconTax Blog]

Mar 6, 2025 - Proposition 64 created two excise taxes on cannabis: a 15 percent retail excise tax and a cultivation tax. Chapter 56, Statutes of 2022 (AB 195, Committee on Budget) eliminated the cultivation tax on July 1, 2022.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/824

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - Recommendations Consider Developing a Child Care Budget Plan in Case Legislature Does Not Receive Key Information Prior to June 15. Given the alternative methodology and a new collective bargaining agreement may not be finalized prior to the June  15 deadline to pass a budget, the Legislature may want to plan for costs associated with the new rates in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - While resident CLSF JD tuition was about 5  percent below the resident tuition levels of UC ’s JD programs from 2012 ‑13 through 2018 ‑19, it was 15  percent below in 2024 ‑25. CLSF Provides Student Financial Aid.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The Governor also proposes $15  million for the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to approval of the State Board of Education, to select one or more COEs to provide training to develop literacy coaches.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - While  the composition of the workforce has not changed much from 2014 ‑15 through 2023 ‑24, the most pronounced change has been in the share of managers, which has grown from 7  percent to 10  percent of the total workforce.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

Five Guidelines for Using Revenue Forecasts [EconTax Blog]

Feb 20, 2025 - When DOF ’s forecast for the budget window is within $10 billion of ours at May Revision (or $15 billion at the January budget release), decision makers should tend to view it as reasonable. Only when our forecasts differ by more than this would we suggest decision makers consider raising questions about the reasonableness of the administration ’s forecast.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/article/Detail/822

Five Guidelines for Using Revenue Forecasts [EconTax Blog]

Feb 20, 2025 - When DOF ’s forecast for the budget window is within $10 billion of ours at May Revision (or $15 billion at the January budget release), decision makers should tend to view it as reasonable. Only when our forecasts differ by more than this would we suggest decision makers consider raising questions about the reasonableness of the administration ’s forecast.
https://lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax/Article/Detail/822

Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - The state provides $15  million ongoing for funding intended to improve linkages between CTE programs at schools, community colleges, universities, and local businesses. The state has funded a variety of projects with this funding, including additional partnership academies, online curriculum and resources for CTE courses (CTE Online) administered by Butte COE, a virtual platform
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021