The 2025-26 Budget: Child Care and State Preschool

Mar 28, 2025 - More broadly, the Legislature might also want to consider changes to how AP agencies are funded. In a previous analysis of AP agency funding, we make several recommendations that would better align funding for AP agencies with the costs to administer voucher ‑based programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5024

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Moreover, specific budgetary conditions occurring this year —including legislative action taken last year to withdraw more in reserves this year —make interpretation of the budget position more complex.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - The Governor ’s budget proposes making nearly one ‑third of all spending ‑related solutions subject to trigger restoration language. Under this proposed language, program spending that otherwise would have occurred in 2023 ‑24 would not be allocated as part of the June budget act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

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

Jan 13, 2020 - Ultimately, the Legislature will make its own determination about how to allocate funds available in the upcoming budget process. One of the goals of this report is to estimate for the Legislature how much capacity the budget has to make those allocations under the Governor ’s estimates of revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4135

The 2024-25 Budget: State Preschool

Apr 16, 2024 - This allows providers to receive their full contract amount regardless of how many children are enrolled in the program. Prior to the pandemic, reimbursement for direct contract programs was based on the lesser of reimbursable program costs, the contract amount, and the reimbursement rate multiplied by attendance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4894

The 2021-22 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 11, 2021 - If the administration needs to make any budget revisions, we recommend it notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee prior to making any adjustments. We further recommend amending the proposed budget bill so that funds are appropriated to child care in a similar structure as the 2020 ‑ 21 b udget act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4363

The 2022-23 Budget: State Preschool

Feb 22, 2022 - Given the complexities of such a change, the Legislature may want to wait a few years and see how the expansion of TK affects State Preschool enrollment before deciding to adjust eligibility in this way.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4555

Overview of Federal Relief for K-12 Education and Child Care

Apr 29, 2021 - In deciding how to use its ESSER funds, schools are expected to consider student social-emotional needs and the student groups most impacted by COVID-19. Each school district or charter school must also make publicl y available its plan for safe in-person instruction within 30 days of receiving ESSER funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4419

The 2020-21 Budget: Early Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2020 - The proposal lacks sufficient detail and does not provide any clarity on how the restructuring would lead to more effective or efficient services to children and families. Moreover, we think making large governance changes this year is premature given the administration ’s forthcoming master plan on early learning and care.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4167

The 2023-24 Budget: Child Care Proposals

Feb 9, 2023 - These questions include: How Does the Governor ’s Budget Allocate Over $5   Billion in Federal Relief Funds? Based on our analysis of DSS budget documents, we do not know how the administration plans to use $232  million of the over $5  billion in federal relief funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672