The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - Figure 3
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

Child Care Funding Rates and Transition to an Alternative Methodology [Publication Details]

Apr 3, 2025 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 3 On Health and Human Services
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5023

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - The state provided a total of $477  million for the program (across 2022 ‑23 and 2023 ‑24) for all schools with K ‑3 enrollment and an EL/LI share of 95  percent or higher. Schools received a minimum grant of $450,000, with additional funding distributed proportionally based on K ‑3 enrollment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Similarly, the number of Californians who are unemployed is 25  percent higher than during the strong labor markets of 2019 and 2022. Consumer spending —as measured by inflation ‑adjusted retail sales and taxable sales —has continued to decline throughout 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2025-26 Budget: Proposition 98 Guarantee and K-12 Spending Plan [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5004

The 2025-26 Budget: California State University

Feb 25, 2025 - Sixteen campuses had freshman admission rates of 90 percent or higher in fall 2024, compared to only three campuses in fall 2019. Transfer admission rates have also increased over the past few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4989

Child Care Funding Rates and Transition to an Alternative Methodology [Publication Details]

Feb 19, 2025 - Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 On Human Services and Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 On Education Finance
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4973

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services

Mar 5, 2025 - We note that the department also canceled its Reimbursement System Project, a separate IT project that first received funding in 2019 ‑20. Please see the nearby box for more information on the Reimbursement System Project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

Feb 13, 2025 - Most of these proposals revolve around four programmatic areas: (1)  TK, (2)  literacy and math initiatives, (3)  teacher training and recruitment, and (4)  expanded learning (after school programs and summer programs).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4963

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Developmental Services [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - This brief provides a short summary of the Governor’s proposed budget for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) before addressing four issues that warrant legislative oversight: (1) quality incentives as part of service provider rate reform, (2) the Master Plan for Developmental Services, (3) DDS’s ongoing information technology project, and (4) the phaseout of subminimum wage employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5008