The 2025-26 Budget: Educator Workforce

Mar 7, 2025 - Of the total amount provided, $15 million was from federal IDEA funding and restricted to special education teacher candidates. 516.5 National Board Certified Teacher Certification Incentive Program 2021 ‑22 Provides financial awards to teachers holding National Board certifications who teach at schools at least 55 percent of students are EL/LI.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5012

California gaming activities. [Ballot]

Oct 1, 2021 - Authorizes In-Person and Online Sports Wagering. This measure amends the Constitution to authorize in-person and online sports wagering beginning January 1, 2023. At minimum, California ’s cardrooms, horse racing tracks, and tribes with tribal-state compacts as well as professional sports teams from certain leagues (including the
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2021-009

Sports wagering. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - However, the state ’s ability to require tribes to make payments to state and local governments is generally limited to state and local governmental costs resulting from the authorization, regulation, and oversight of gaming activities; compensation to mitigate the negative impacts of gaming; and distribution to other tribes, among other things.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-031

Gaming. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - Authorizes Online Sports Wagering. This measure amends the Constitution to authorize Native American tribes to offer online sports wagering beginning July 1, 2025. The measure permits only people 21 years of age or older to make sports wagers and requires them to register for player accounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-030

^[PDF] California gaming activities.

Authorizes In-Person and Online Sports Wagering. This measure amends the Constitution to authorize in-person and online sports wagering beginning January 1, 2023. At minimum, California’s cardrooms, horse racing tracks, and tribes with tribal-state compacts as well as professional sports teams from certain leagues (including the
https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2021/210468.pdf

Los Angeles' Bid for the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics

Nov 10, 2016 - National Olympic Committees (NOCs). NOCs manage and promote Olympic activities in individual countries. NOCs choose a nation ’s athletes for each Games and decide which cities in their countries can bid to host the Games.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3506

The 2019-20 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Primary Care Physician Residency Proposals

May 9, 2019 - The Governor proposes making certain limited ‑term funding for these initiatives ongoing. In this brief, we provide background on residency programs, describe the Governor ’s two associated budget proposals, assess those proposals, and make associated recommendations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4034

Proposition 27 [Ballot]

Nov 8, 2022 - For example, the state currently does not receive any share of illegal sports bets made online. This means the state would receive new revenue when people make sports bets legally rather than illegally.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=27&year=2022

^[PDF] Improving High Schools: A Strategic Approach

Currently, SDE reports 290 Partnership Academies in California. Several of California’s Partnership Academies participated in a national study of the program. Compared to a control group, the evaluation found few significant differences in student outcomes for those participating in an academy in terms of graduation rates, college attendance, or employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/2005/high_schools/improving_hs_050905.pdf

Cannabis and certain psychedelic drugs. [Ballot]

Dec 18, 2023 - Proposal This measure makes various changes to state law related to “entheogenic substances ”, which the measure defines as including cannabis and specific psychedelic drugs. These changes to state law include legalizing entheogenic substances that are currently illegal for use by people 18 years of age and older.
https://lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2023-032