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: Transitional Kindergarten

Feb 18, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Must have fifth birthday between September 2 and December 2. 2022 ‑23 Must have fifth birthday between September 2 and February 2. 2023 ‑24 Must have fifth birthday between September 2 and April 2. 2024 ‑25 Must have fifth birthday between September 2 and June 2. 2025 ‑26 Must have fourth birthday by September 1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4968

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: 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

Mar 5, 2025 - Much of the information required in the PAPD submission overlaps with the information required in the PAL Stages 1 and 2 documents. As a result, any updates to the state ’s PAL Stages 1 and 2 documents should be mirrored in the federal PAPD submission to ensure consistency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5008

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

Jan 13, 2025 - Specifically, the Governor ’s budget assumes (1)  a $620  million ($230  million General Fund) reduction through the permanent elimination of 6,500 vacant positions and associated funding and (2)  a $1.5  billion ($820  million General Fund) in 2024 ‑25 and $2  billion ($1.2  billion General Fund) in 2025 ‑26 and ongoing reduction to state operations expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

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

Nov 20, 2024 - Technically, it reduces the Test 2 and Test 3 funding levels from what they otherwise would be in the year following the increase. These lower levels are then used in the comparison with Test 1 (which is unaffected).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

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

The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Background State Law Requires Literacy Screening in Grades K ‑2 Beginning in 2025 ‑26. Chapter  48 of 2023 (S B  114 , Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review) requires that schools administer screenings for reading difficulties to students in kindergarten through second grade starting in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - LEAs are required to report on how they used KIT funds to (1)  improve the quality of school meals, (2)  increase participation in the school meal program, and (3)  increase the capacity for freshly prepared on ‑site meals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001