The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - The measure does not specify how the funds are to be allocated among these specific purposes. In addition to this state general obligation bond, voters in the same election approved 14 local general obligation bonds totaling $9.9  billion for community college facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

CalFacts 2024 [Publication Details]

Dec 2, 2024 - CalFacts presents a wide range of facts and trends about the state's economy, finances, and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4942

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - For the prior year, the state finalizes its calculation through a process known as “certification. ” Certification involves the publication of the underlying Proposition   98 inputs and a period for public comment and review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - UC Has Large Seismic Safety and Capital Renewal Backlogs. Of the state ‑supported academic facility projects UC has undertaken since 2013 ‑14, nearly $1.2  billion has been for seismic safety and capital renewal projects (including major renovations, building replacements, and infrastructure improvements).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - The state also created a climate change research program at the Strategic Growth Council, providing the program a total of $34  million (Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund) from 2017 ‑18 through 2019 ‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Incarcerated students may use Pell Grants to cover tuition, textbooks and other course materials, supplies and equipment (such as to buy or rent a personal computer), and costs to obtain a certification or other first professional credential.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Mar 10, 2025 - The remainder of the school ’s operating costs includes operating equipment and expenses (utilities, rent, and supplies), as well as safety and security contracts. School Is Operating From a Deficit Position in 2024 ‑25.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - Though CSAC provided documentation showing how OE&E costs have been increasing, it did not include detail on how additional funding would be allocated to cover both rising OE&E costs and staffing shortages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2021-22 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 16, 2021 - The Legislature therefore lacks basic information, such as how many zero ‑textbook ‑cost degrees and certificates were developed, how much it cost to develop them, what challenges were encountered in developing them, how many students completed or are on track to complete a zero ‑textbook ‑cost degree, and how much savings to students was generated.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4372

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - In addition, it does not specify how the Chancellor ’s Office is to allocate the funds among interested colleges, including how much grant funding each college would be eligible to receive. The administration indicates that the Chancellor ’s Office would have flexibility to make these types of decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005