Overview of K-12 Career Technical Education

Mar 25, 2025 - To receive grants, collaboratives must commit to creating new intersegmental academic pathways in at least two of the following occupational areas: health care, education, business management, and engineering/computing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5021

The 2025-26 Budget: Expanded Learning Opportunities Program

Feb 20, 2025 - Consider Setting a Fixed Tier 2 Rate. A fixed Tier 2 rate that does not change based on the costs of funding Tier 1 programs would eliminate much of the uncertainty that Tier 2 districts face each year when making program decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4977

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce 2018 ‑19 and 2021 ‑22 Supports establishing and expanding teacher and school counselor residency programs in special education, STEM, bilingual education, and kindergarten/transitional kindergarten.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - For example, many campuses are impacted in their Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Nursing programs. Though some programs remain impacted, eight campuses saw a decrease in the number of impacted programs in 2024 ‑25 compared to 2023 ‑24. 2025‑26 and 2026‑27 Enrollment Expectations Budget Plan Sets Enrollment Expectations for Coming Years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - In 2018 ‑19, the state provided $164  million for the state portion of school meals. This amount has grown to $1.8  billion in 2023 ‑24 (a 987  percent increase). Program costs have also consistently been higher than initially budgeted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - (The ELPAC was developed and adopted in 2018, before the state began expanding TK eligibility to younger four-year olds.) Since the ELPAC was not designed with younger TK students in mind, the major concern was that students who were developing language normally for their age could be misidentified as English learners.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2021-22 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 19, 2021 - Teacher shortages in science and math are attributed to a shortage of undergraduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors and the high sal aries that these graduates can receive in other professions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4381

Update on the Progress of the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Nov 18, 2021 - For any new losses, liabilities could be isolated and eliminated over a separate fixed period. This would allow CalSTRS to address new liabilities over a standard time horizon, rather than facing a constantly shrinking time line to address all UAO by 2046.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4475

The Local Control Funding Formula for School Districts and Charter Schools

Jan 9, 2023 - This funding was phased in over seven years (from 2013 ‑14 through 2019 ‑20), and is now a permanent, fixed add ‑on. Funding from the Economic Recovery Target can be used for any educational purpose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4661

The 2022-23 Budget: Educator Workforce Proposals

Feb 23, 2022 - CDE competitively awarded grants to eight districts and COEs. 5 Total $1,167 CSAC = California Student Aid Commission; STEM = science, technology, engineering, and math; CTC = Commission on Teacher Credentialing; COE = county office of education; and CDE = California Department of Education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4556