Fact Sheet Financing California’s Public Schools By Julien Lafortune, Joseph Herrera Sep 27, 2022 The federal government allocated $23.2 billion in one-time aid in 2020–21 and another $9.2 billion in 2021–22. Federal funds accounted for 23% of K–12 funding ...
Report Understanding the Effects of School Funding By Julien Lafortune May 18, 2022 Funding for California's K–12 public schools has reached record highs, ... and federal governments provided restricted funding through categorical programs.
Report Targeted K–12 Funding and Student Outcomes By Julien Lafortune Oct 6, 2021 LCFF eliminated most categorical funding programs, replacing them with a simpler and more flexible funding system. Districts receive a base grant per unit of ...
Report Groundwater and Urban Growth in the San Joaquin Valley By Andrew Ayres, Ellen Hanak, Henry McCann, David Mitchell ... Sep 15, 2021 Supported with funding from the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, ...
Report School Resources and the Local Control Funding Formula: Is Increased Spending Reaching High-Need Students? By Julien Lafortune Aug 7, 2019 The LCFF also gives districts greater spending flexibility, with the consolidation of many categorical aid programs-which fund specific areas or ...
Report Charter Schools and California’s Local Control Funding Formula By Iwunze Ugo, Laura Hill Sep 21, 2017 Before the LCFF, charter schools received less per pupil funding than traditional public school districts because some categorical funding was not available ...
Report Special Education Finance in California By Laura Hill, Patrick Murphy, Paul Warren, Iwunze Ugo Nov 28, 2016 The state's enactment of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013 consolidated most state categorical programs into district base grants in order to ...
Report Implementing California’s School Funding Formula: Will High-Need Students Benefit? By Laura Hill, Iwunze Ugo Mar 12, 2015 The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) reformed California's K-12 school finance system. It replaced a patchwork of formulas and specific (or “categorical”) ...