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Administration seeks $3 million Prop 98 to sustain California College Guidance Initiative
Summary
The governor’s budget requests $3 million ongoing Prop 98 to backfill prior one-time carryover funding for the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI), bringing its ongoing funding to $23.7 million; CDE and CCGI described usage and scaling to districts and higher-education application integration
The Department of Finance presented a $3 million ongoing Prop 98 request to sustain the California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) as it completes a five‑year statewide scale-up.
Patrick Rochelle of the Department of Finance said the request backfills a portion of 2024–25 funding that was previously supported by one-time carryover and would allow CCGI to continue expanding tools and services for students in grades 6–12, integrate with higher education application systems and add partner districts. With the request, the initiative’s ongoing appropriation would rise to $23.7 million Prop 98.
Officials and usage data Mary Nisley of the Department of Education provided technical context, noting extensive data exchanges between CDE and CCGI (enrollment and transcript-level data for more than 3.3 million students from over 1,200 districts). CCGI representatives described platform usage: record totals for the current academic year include about 1.9 million logins, approximately 237,000 CSU applications passed through the system, 228,000 UC applications and 105,000 California Community College applications (with additional CCC applications expected later in the cycle).
Why it matters: CCGI provides college and career planning tools, an application and transcript data pipeline and dashboards for districts to identify students who have yet to apply to college despite being eligible. Supporters at the hearing described the platform as a useful operational tool that can help streamline financial aid and admissions effort statewide.
Ending: The subcommittee treated the request as an informational item and did not vote in this hearing. Members voiced support for continued investment while noting the program had reached a scale where ongoing funding is required to sustain statewide operations.
