July 2025

K-12 Education

K-12 Proposition 98 Funding by Program

(Dollars in Millions)

  2023-24
Final
2024-25
Revised
2025-26
Enacted
Change From 2024-25
Amount Percent
Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)          
School districts and charter schools $79,842 $80,169 $83,011 $2,842 3.5%
County offices of education 1,431 1,437 1,469 33 2.3   
   Subtotals ($81,273) ($81,606) ($84,480) ($2,875) (3.5%)
Categorical Programs          
Special Education $6,226 $6,350 $6,473 $123 1.9%
Expanded Learning Opportunities Program 4,000 4,000 4,526 526 13.1   
Child Nutrition 1,783 1,846 1,937 91 4.9   
State Preschoola 1,830 1,378 1,916 539 39.1   
Arts and music funding (Proposition 28) b 907 1,045 138 15.2   
After School Education and Safety 770 795 795 c —   
Student Support and Discretionary Block Grantd 23 1,020 654 -367 -35.9   
Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant 379 379 —   
Equity Multiplier 300 303 310 7 2.3   
Career Technical Education Incentive Grants 300 300 300 —   
Mandates Block Grant 260 267 273 6 2.3   
Charter School Facility Grants 194 168 182 14 8.1   
System of support for low-performing districts 126 147 135 -12 -8.1   
Student assessments 99 108 108 c -0.4   
Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program 90 99 90 -9 -9.1   
State special schools 80 78 78e c 0.2   
Teacher residencies 70 70 —   
Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program 32 32 33 1 2.3   
National Board Certification Incentive Grant Program 30 30 —   
Student Friendly Services (College Planning) 24 26 29 3 11.5   
SUN Bucks administration 22 22 —   
Safe Neighborhood and Schools Program 27 22 22 -1 -3.5   
Partnership Academies 21 21 21 —   
Career Pathways Program 15 15 15 —   
Statewide literacy and math networks 15 15 —   
California Collaborative for Educational Excellence 8 6f 12 6 100.6   
High Speed Network 4 7 11 4 50.0   
Transitional Kindergarten English language proficiency screeners 10 10 —   
Adults in Correctional Facilities 9 9 9 c 1.1   
California School Information Services 9 9 9 —  —   
Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team 7 8 8g c 2.0   
Transitional Kindergarten multilingual learner supplemental funding 8 8 —   
Refugee student support 7 7 7 —   
Agricultural Vocational Education 6 6 6 —   
American Indian Education Centers 5 5 5 c 2.3   
State Seal of Civic Engagement 5 5 5 —   
Specialized Secondary Programs 5 5 5 —   
School accounting system 4 4 4 —   
Access to opioid overdose reversal medication 4 4 4 —   
Equity leads 2 2 2 —   
Inclusive College Technical Assistance Center 2 2 —   
Regional English learner lead agencies 2 2 —   
Homeless Education Technical Assistance Centers 2 2 —   
Student teacher stipends 300 -300 -100.0   
Literacy and math coaches 245 -245 -100.0   
Literacy professional development 200 -200 -100.0   
Universal School Meals Implementation Block Grant 160 -160 -100.0   
Other career technical education (pending legislation) 150 -150 -100.0   
Reading difficulties screening administration 65 -65 -100.0   
Special Olympics 30 -30 -100.0   
Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative fee transition 20 -20 -100.0   
Training for new mathematics framework 20 -20 -100.0   
Secondary school redesign pilot 10 -10 -100.0   
Reading difficulties screening tool 10 -10 -100.0   
Item bank for science performance tasks 7 -7 -100.0   
Instructional continuity 4 -4 -100.0   
Basic aid fire-related property tax backfill 10 —    
Other 10 7 10 3 43.0   
   Subtotals ($16,292) ($19,191) ($19,577) ($387) (2.0%)
Adjustments          
Payment deferral from 2024-25 to 2025-26 -$247 $247 $493 -200.0%
Cost shifts from 2023-24 to 2024-25 -$3,642 3,642 -3,642 -100.0   
Cost shifts from 2022-23 to 2023-24 2,341 —   
Miscellaneous revenues -30 -30 -30 —   
One-time fund swaps -1,594 -254 -151 103 -40.4   
Cost shifts from 2025-26 to 2024-25 193 -193 -386 -200.0   
Payment deferral from 2025-26 to 2026-27 -1,875 -1,875 —   
Other -10 c 17.3   
   Subtotals (-$2,935) ($3,304) (-$2,003) (-$5,307) (-160.6%)
      Totals $94,630 $104,101 $102,055 -$2,046 -2.0%
           
a Excludes programs operated by nonprofit agencies. Includes $50 million each year for Quality Rating and Improvement System.
b Program received $938 million in non-Proposition 98 General Fund in 2023-24.      
c Change of less than $500,000.
d June 2025 budget also provides $3.3 million in unspent prior-year funds to support the discretionary grant.    
e June 2025 budget also provides $2 million in unspent prior-year funds to support the California School for the Deaf in Fremont.    
f June 2024 budget also provided $4.3 million in unspent prior-year funds to support agency operations in 2024-25.    
g June 2025 budget also provides $1 million in unspent prior-year funds to support workload related to the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles.