The 2022-23 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges [Publication Details]

Nov 17, 2021 - After accounting for various adjustments—backing out one‑time expenditures, funding a 5.35 percent cost‑of‑living adjustment, and making required reserve deposits—we estimate that $9.5 billion is available for new commitments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4473

Overview of Special Education Funding Models

Dec 17, 2021 - For example, California school districts are constitutionally restricted in their ability to raise local revenue due to Proposition  13 (1978), whereas districts in many other states are able to raise local taxes if they have extraordinarily high special education costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4486

The 2022-23 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 17, 2021 - The Legislature can respond to excess revenues by (1)  lowering tax revenues, (2) splitting the excess between taxpayer rebates and one ‑time payments to school and community college districts, or (3) appropriating more money for purposes excluded from the limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4473

The 2020-21 Budget: School District Budget Trends

Jan 21, 2020 - When this threshold is met, medium and large school districts (those with 2, 500 o r more students) are limited to having local reserves that amount to no more than 10  p ercent of their annual expenditures.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4136

EdBudget Tables (January 2017)

Jan 13, 2017 - Proposition 98 Funding Per Student $10,171 $396 2.7% a Includes funding for state debt-service payments for school facilities, state contributions to the State Teachers ’ Retirement System, and California Department of Education operations. b Includes one-time clean energy funds carried over from previous years. c Includes revenue from local fees, property taxes collected in
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3529

The 2018-19 Budget: Update on State Funding for K-12 School Facilities

May 3, 2018 - Such information could help the incoming administration and Legislature right size the agency next year (depending upon whether the state would like to follow a five- or ten-year Proposition  51 expenditure plan).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3821

The 2018-19 Budget: Proposition 98 Education Analysis

Feb 7, 2018 - These proportions differ from many other states, where local property tax revenue covers a much larger share of school funding. Unlike most other states, Ca lifornia ’s State Constitution limits local property tax rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3741

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

Apr 23, 2021 - Addendums must be updated when actual expenditure data is available. Provides $5  Million for California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE). The funding is for CCEE to provide support to LEAs, beginning May 1, 2021, to maximize positive student outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4417

The 2017-18 Budget: Overview of the Governor’s Proposition 98 Budget Package

Jan 13, 2017 - Specifically, he proposes (1) requiring schools to enter into upfront grant agreements that include certain conditions and accounta bility measures and (2) making schools ’ associated expenditures subject to local independent audits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3530

The 2022-23 Budget: School Nutrition

Feb 8, 2022 - By June 30, 2023, CDE is required to collect expenditure reports and narrative responses explaining how these funds were used to improve the quality of school meals or increase school meals participation from each participating LEA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4519