2024-25 State Budget:
No Cuts to Expanded Learning

 
 
 

The Governor and the Legislature reached an agreement on the 2024-25 state budget. As Governor Newsom and the Legislature recommended throughout the year, Expanded Learning programs will not be cut.


Changes have been made to ELO-P:

  • Local educational agencies (LEAs) may expend or encumber their 2021-22 funds to fiscal year 2023-24. Funds not expended or encumbered by September 30, 2024 will be returned to the state.

  • Any funds given to LEAs must be expended by June 30 of the following fiscal year. Any funds not expended will be returned to the state.

  • LEAs should declare their operational intent to operate an expanded learning program. Those who choose not to operate an ELO-P will return their allocated funds to the state.

  • Returned funds will go to Tier 2 LEAs (those with unduplicated pupil percentages under 75% and that therefore receive lower ELO-P allocations). 

Attendance Recovery Programs:

  • Despite the Legislature's recommendation to reject this proposal, the final budget agreement allows LEAs to recover average daily attendance up to 10 days per student per school year, beginning July 1, 2025. LEAs will be allowed to use ELO-P funds to operate attendance recovery programs outside of school-day hours. 

  • On or before June 30, 2025, the Department of Education will develop guidance to support LEAs in creating and implementing high-quality attendance recovery programs.

Prop 98 (SB 154):

  • The fiscal year 2024-25 state budget does not cut school funding. Negotiations between the California Teachers Union, the School Boards Association, Governor Newsom, and the Legislature resulted in a Proposition 98 (which guarantees a minimum amount of state funding for schools) suspension, which will delay payments to schools and create a debt the state will pay back to itself over the next 10 years.

See SB 153, the Education Omnibus Trailer Bill for more details.

Watch the California AfterSchool Network's Fireside Chat where Heather Williams from CAN and Michael Funk, Director of the Expanded Learning Division of the California Department of Education discuss the 2024-25 state budget and how it impacts expanded learning.

Contact

For more information on where and how ELO-P is having an impact in communities around the state and CA3’s budget priorities, contact Stephanie Pollick: stephanie@partnerforchildren.org, (510) 830-4200 x1616