The 2025-26 Budget: School Nutrition

Mar 4, 2025 - Based on our higher estimates, we recommend providing $32 million more than the Governor proposes for school nutrition programs in 2025‑26. This would reflect cost growth more consistent with recent trends in the number of school meals served.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5001

The 2025-26 Budget: Transitional Kindergarten Multilingual Learner Screeners

Feb 26, 2025 - Chapter  15 of 2024 (AB  2268, Muratsuchi) eliminated the requirement for districts to assess English proficiency for all TK students beginning in 2024-25. This was intended to address concerns that the current ELPAC assessment was not developmentally appropriate for younger TK students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4990

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education

Sep 16, 2024 - Delays the program sunset date from 2030 ‑31 to 2031 ‑32 to give the fourth cohort of implementation grantees two years to spend their extension grants. Shifts $60  million previously set aside for extension grants to be used for additional implementation grants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4929

Early Budget Actions to Support In-Person K-12 Instruction and Address Learning Loss

Apr 23, 2021 - Below, we describe the major components of AB  86. In-Person Instruction Provides $2  Billion, Conditional on Meeting In-Person Instruction Requirements. Funding is allocated to local education agencies (LEAs) —school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education —based on their share of total 2020 ‑21 Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) allotments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4417

Early Budget Actions to Support In-Person K-12 Instruction and Address Learning Loss [Publication Details]

Apr 23, 2021 - On March 5, 2021, the Governor signed Chapter 10 (AB 86, Committee on Budget), which provides additional one-time Proposition 98 funding to schools for providing in-person instruction and addressing student learning loss due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This post describes the major components of the legislation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4417

The 2022-23 Budget: Special Education Proposals

Jan 25, 2022 - This post provides background on various special education programs, describes the Governor's proposals related to these topics, and offers associated recommendations and issues for the Legislature to consider.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4494

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - Chapter  32 established a requirement for county superintendents to prepare a summary of how the COE plans to assist all school districts within the county. The plan describes actions the COE will take in approving all LCAPs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883

The 2022-23 Budget: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision

May 16, 2022 - Specifically, the Governor proposes  allocating: $32   Billion to One ‑Time or Temporary Spending on Programmatic Expansions. The Governor proposes spending about 60  percent of the overall General Fund surplus, or $32  billion, on a one ‑time or temporary basis for a variety of programmatic expansions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4598

The 2020-21 Budget: Governor’s Computer Science Proposals

Mar 10, 2020 - Chapter  876 of 2014 (AB  1539, Hagman) required the state to consider adopting computer science content standards. The State Board of Education (SBE) ultimately adopted a set of computer science standards in September 2018.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4198

Follow-up Evaluation of the District of Choice Program

Feb 1, 2021 - I n 2 014 ‑15, the difference between the share of Latino students using the program ( 32  p ercent) and their share of home district enrollment ( 66  p ercent) wa s 3 4  p ercentage points. I n 2 018 ‑19, this difference had decreased t o 2 8  p ercentage points.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4329