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Download full textFoundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2023
Technology plays an important role in education today, from homework assignments that require online research or peer collaboration to virtual tutoring or advanced courses that are not accessible at a student's assigned school. Additionally, schools can turn to online learning when inclement weather hits, school buildings need repair or in…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Online Courses, Distance Education, Computer Assisted Instruction
Diana Polson; Rachel Tabachnick; Stephen Herzenberg – Keystone Research Center, 2024
Decades of chronic underfunding and inequitable funding have been spiraling Pennsylvania's public school system into crisis--failing kids and threatening the future of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Court has ruled that the state's current funding system for K-12 schools is unconstitutional and the state must take action to adequately and…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Vouchers, Accountability, Educational Equity (Finance)
Direct linkLaurie Virtusio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This mixed-method study explored the culturally responsive practices of a midsized, Southern California school district that used Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELOP) state funding to implement a voluntary summer program accessible to TK--6 grade students district-wide. Qualitative data gathered from semistructured interviews with the…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Kaput, Krista; O'Keefe, Bonnie – Bellwether, 2023
To prepare for the future, state policymakers can learn from the past -- specifically, the Great Recession and the COVID-19 Recession. Drawing on lessons learned from both time periods, the authors of this brief set out to answer the following questions: (1) What lessons from past economic crises might help state policymakers and advocates prepare…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Futures (of Society), COVID-19, Pandemics
Education Trust-West, 2021
In 2021, California made historic investments in early learning to expand transitional kindergarten (TK) to serve all of California's 4-year-olds. Transitional kindergarten began in California in 2012 as a free public school program for 4-year-olds who were not yet eligible for kindergarten (a non-compulsory grade). Yet by 2019, just 28 percent of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Kindergarten, State Policy, Preschool Education
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2021
Many state funding programs are intended to reach directly to students, but in reality funds must go through school districts, which have considerable freedom in how they allocate resources. As such, states have a strong interest in ensuring that districts invest in strategies that are backed by evidence and create opportunity for all students.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Finance, State Aid, Resource Allocation
Advocates for Children of New Jersey, 2021
While the importance of the period from birth to age three as the most promising and possibly consequential stage of human development has gained attention over the last quarter century, public investments in children's early learning opportunities have remained inadequate. The nation, as well as the state of New Jersey, invests the fewest public…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Child Development, Educational Finance
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Dragoo, Kyrie E.; Lomax, Erin – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; P.L. 108-446) is the primary source of federal funding to states for the identification and education of children with disabilities. The majority of IDEA appropriations are allocated to states by formula to carry out activities under Part B, which covers 14 disability categories. Each state is…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Comparative Analysis, Equal Education, Educational Legislation
National School Boards Association, 2020
When K-12 school districts nationwide closed buildings and moved instruction online in the spring of 2020, American life changed. This guide identifies some of the legal issues school leaders should be considering as schools reopen in a world where the new coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19, continue to be major public health…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Privacy, Guides
Children Now, 2020
The 2020 Pro-Kid Policy Agenda for California is the comprehensive roadmap at the state level to ensure that all children have the necessary supports to reach their full potential. California has an obligation to tear down the structural barriers to all kids, especially kids of color, from growing up healthy, safe, and ready for college, career,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Equal Education, Child Health
Jacobson, Linda – New America Foundation, 2009
This report on the state's early education system offers a dark assessment, but not a fatalistic one, especially if leaders can seize and build on reform efforts that have already started in patches throughout the state. There's much more that policymakers, advocates and the state can--and should--be doing to work toward a day when all California…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Primary Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Change
