The 2026-27 Budget: Re-Envisioning State Education Governance

Mar 18, 2026 - The significance of these examples is not simply that two different entities disagreed about policy, but that the governance structure did not provide a clear path for resolving these disagreements outside of extended litigation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5165

Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending

Mar 14, 2024 - COE budgets often include significant amounts of revenue for which COEs simply pass through funding to school districts and other local governments. (For  example, with special education funding that is transferred to school districts and certain local property tax transferred to trial courts.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4883