Providing Fiscal Assistance and Services to Local Educational Agencies

THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA SINCE 1992

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New- 2025-26 FCMAT Annual Report

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Updated September 2026 — Fiscal Status of LEAs

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New — TK-12 Public Finance Training for Governing Boards

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New FCMAT Help Desk Platform Now Available

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New — Community College ASB Manual Now Available

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Updated — County Office of Education Fiscal Procedural Manual

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News In Education

FCMAT provides links to California TK-12 news stories as a service to the industry. Some stories may require a newspaper subscription.

4 adults, 2 minors arrested in 3 burglary incidents on shuttered Santa Rosa school campuses in 2 days

Nov 02, 2026

Authorities said Steele Lane Elementary and Comstock Middle schools were targeted late last week in the latest incidents on closed school campuses in Santa Rosa.

‘Go out and change the world’: Students find confidence, community at LAUSD’s single-sex schools

Nov 02, 2026

Launched in 2016, the Girls Academic Leadership Academy, or GALA, is California’s only all-girls public school. Its counterpart, the Boys Academic Leadership Academy, or BALA, serves boys in grades six through 12.

Culture War Tensions Roil Beverly Hills School Board Race

Nov 02, 2026

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, school board elections around the country, once sleepy affairs, have been convulsed by America’s political and cultural divides. The teaching of racial justice. Gaza and Israel. Transgender rights.

Why school board members aren’t running for reelection: ‘A lot of disillusionmen

Nov 02, 2026

About half of California’s school board candidates are most likely running unopposed, according to a recent USC report, leaving a dearth of public scrutiny just as enormous changes to K-12 education are underway at the state and federal levels.

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Our Services

These three services represent the people and skills behind FCMAT and our dedication to California's educational system.

Professional Learning Workshops

FCMAT's professional learning service includes regional and local educational agency (LEA)-specific workshops on a variety of topics for county offices, school districts, charter schools and community colleges; various leadership preparation programs; and written resources and presentations on a variety of topics given by staff throughout California.

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California School Information Services (CSIS)

As a service of FCMAT, CSIS assists LEAs in addressing a variety of challenges in the management and exchange of public school student, staff, and institutional information. CSIS has a long-standing history of providing leadership, information and tools designed to empower California's LEAs with increasing access to and use of high-quality data.

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Fiscal Health Risk Analysis (FHRA) and Indicators of Risk or Potential Insolvency

FCMAT has developed the FHRA and the Indicators of Risk or Financial Insolvency tools to help evaluate an LEA's fiscal health and risk of insolvency in the current and two subsequent fiscal years. Separate versions exist for TK-12, charter schools, and community colleges.

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Ed-Data.org

Ed-Data.org, also known as the Education Data Partnership, is a partnership of the California Department of Education, EdSource, and the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team/California School Information Services (FCMAT/CSIS). It provides educators, parents, policy makers, the legislature and public access to timely and comprehensive fiscal, demographic, and performance data about TK-12 education in California.

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