Alum Rock Union Elementary School District
The board is scheduled to consider a 3% salary-schedule increase for the 2025–26 school year under the educators’ tentative agreement, plus increases for other employee groups.
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Alum Rock Union Elementary School District
The board agenda includes an application for exemption from the Education Code Section 41372 requirement that elementary districts spend at least 60% of current education expenses on classroom teacher salaries; the district reports it fell short by 0.62% in FY2025-26 and is requesting a County Superintendent exemption citing fiscal hardship.
Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
The September 17, 2026 agenda includes review and potential approval of the Unaudited Actuals Financial Statement for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, the district's year-end closing financial report.
Berkeley Unified School District
The Berkeley Board of Education approved the district’s 2025–26 unaudited actuals and 2026–27 budget update. The district reported meeting the state-required 3% reserve, while its unrestricted general-fund ending balance was $1.8 million below projection and its LCAP had an $8 million unspent balance.
Laguna Joint Elementary School District
Laguna Joint’s adopted 2026–27 budget projects unrestricted-fund operating deficits in each of the next three years. The county review says the forecast depends on $60,481 in salary adjustments starting in 2027–28 and projects the fund balance falling 29% to $644,000 by June 2029.
San Leandro Unified School District
The district’s 2025–26 unaudited General Fund closed with a $5.3 million deficit, and its 2026–27 budget projects an $11.4 million deficit. The budget projects a $12.9 million draw on the unrestricted fund balance, reducing it from $30.4 million to $17.5 million; the economic-uncertainty reserve is listed at $6.1 million.
Pleasanton Unified School District
The Board reviewed the 2025-26 Unaudited Actuals on September 10, 2026, showing the district ended the year with a $12.85M total General Fund balance and, after using $8.1M in Sale-of-Property funds transferred into the Fund 17 Stabilization Fund, achieved a 3.02% unrestricted reserve—meeting the state-required 3% minimum. Without the Stabilization Fund, the unrestricted reserve would have been -0.01%. The unrestricted ending balance improved from a projected -$2.46M at Estimated Actuals to -$23,967 (essentially break-even) through $2.7M in expenditure cuts, use of one-time funds, and maximizing indirect cost recovery per FCMAT recommendations.
Bennett Valley Union Elementary School District
On September 10, 2026, the Governing Board approved a new collective bargaining agreement with the Bennett Valley Teachers Association covering July 2025-June 2027. The settlement includes a 6% salary increase in 2025-26 and another 6% increase in 2026-27, plus an increase to the district's health and welfare cap from $1,004/month to $1,354.83/month in Year 1 and $1,704.83/month in Year 2. The certified compensation impact is roughly $1.0-1.4 million annually across the term.
Bennett Valley Union Elementary School District
On September 10, 2026, the Board adopted Resolution #26-002 establishing the district's Gann (state appropriations) limit for 2025-26 at $7,577,653.31 and a preliminary 2026-27 limit of $10,129,414.04, certifying that budgeted appropriations do not exceed these limits.
Bennett Valley Union Elementary School District
On September 10, 2026, the Board approved the 2025-26 Unaudited Actual Financial Report, certifying a year-end General Fund balance increase of $2,314,690.69, with the unrestricted balance up $498,856.62 and the restricted balance down $334,165.93. The report also notes the district met classroom compensation and Maintenance of Effort requirements.
Antelope Elementary School District
The September 10, 2026 board agenda includes consideration of a $0.25 increase in adult meal prices for 2026-2027, raising adult breakfast to $4.75 and adult lunch to $6.50.
Oakland Unified School District
OUSD’s 2025–26 unaudited close reported a $91.5 million drawdown in combined General Fund balances, leaving $170.1 million, including $32.3 million unrestricted. That is $16.4 million above the balance previously projected, but the District still contributed about $140.1 million to restricted programs, primarily special education.
Pittsburg Unified School District
The Board certified the district's 2025-2026 Unaudited Actuals financial report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, at the September 9, 2026 meeting.
Fortuna Union High School District
The September 8, 2026 board agenda includes a consent-calendar item to increase FUHSD cafeteria adult meal prices from $4.50 to $4.55 for breakfast and $6.25 to $6.40 for lunch, effective September 9, 2026.
Acalanes Union High School District
In minutes for the August 5, 2026 meeting (approved as part of the September 2, 2026 consent calendar), the Governing Board voted 5-0 to adopt Resolution No. 26-27-01, ordering an election for a new 8-year education parcel tax to appear on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot, after a public hearing on the measure.
Loma Prieta Joint Union Elementary School District
Loma Prieta’s September 2 agenda included approval of an application to waive the state requirement that at least 60% of education spending go to classroom salaries. The district reported spending 51.90% and cited financial hardship; the supplied record does not establish whether the board approved the application.
In minutes from the August 10, 2026 meeting (approved August 31), the Governing Board voted 5-0 to approve the District's 2026-2027 45-Day Revised Operating Budget. Key changes include a 2.87% statutory COLA plus 1.44% LCFF investment, $3.3M in one-time student support/PD Discretionary Block Grant funding, a $1.2M increase in Special Education spending, a 3% raise settled with WCTA, and $400K in added Special Education costs (NPS placements and transportation).
Kenter Canyon Elementary Charter
Kenter Canyon's 2026-27 LCAP says it budgeted $765,202 for 2025-26 actions to improve services for high-needs students but actually spent $458,498, a $306,704 difference.
Sacramento City Unified School District
At the August 20, 2026 meeting, district leaders gave the first monthly update on the Fiscal Sustainability Plan. They reported an immediate general fund deficit of about $82.2 million and an ongoing structural deficit of $212 million. The plan targets $158.6 million in savings; $36.7 million has been found so far, and $31.1 million of that is a one-time state block grant that staff said does not fix the ongoing gap. Cash-flow projections were extended from June 2026 to April 2027.
The August 20, 2026 board agenda included the 2026-27 45-Day Budget Revision as an action item, following the Solano County Office of Education's review of the district's 2026-27 budget.
Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District
The August 20, 2026 board agenda includes a proposed Resolution No. 07-2627 approving a 45-Day Budget Revision to the 2026-27 fiscal year budget, with supporting revision journals and a presentation attached.
Howell Mountain Elementary School District
At its August 18 meeting, the Howell Mountain Elementary School District Board held a public hearing on declining enrollment and approved a 45-day revision to the 2026-2027 HMESD budget.
Joseph Le Conte Middle School’s FY27 Targeted Student Population plan budgets $1,243,863 for academic excellence, joy and wellness, and engagement and collaboration.
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