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Abigail Slovick; Bruce Fuller; Ja'Nya Banks; Chunhan Huang; Carla Bryant – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
Policy makers in California intend to provide free preschool to all 4-year-olds solely within public schools by 2026, becoming the nation's second largest single pre-K program in the United States after Head Start. This initiative builds on the state's existing Transitional Kindergarten (TK) option that has served a modest share of 4-year-olds…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Differences, Preschool Education, Equal Education
Luschei, Tom – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2017
Despite California's great wealth, child poverty places a drag on the state's educational performance. Disadvantaged children--including English learners, foster children, and the poor--do not receive the educational attention and services that they require to be successful. Although California's Local Control Funding Formula recognizes this…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Equal Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
Fox, Christine; Jones, Rachel – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2019
The advent of new technologies and increased access to robust connectivity is reshaping the K-12 landscape for teaching and learning. School districts nationwide are leveraging digital instructional materials and resources to deliver transformative and impactful personalized learning opportunities for students and to enhance the administrative…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Internet, Academic Achievement, Technology Uses in Education
State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2019
The advent of new technologies and increased access to robust connectivity is reshaping the K-12 landscape for teaching and learning. School districts nationwide are leveraging digital instructional materials and resources to deliver transformative and impactful personalized learning opportunities for students and to enhance the administrative…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Internet, Academic Achievement, Technology Uses in Education
Public Policy Institute of California, 2021
The past year highlighted and heightened California's key challenges. Millions of Californians lost jobs and income during the COVID-19 crisis; low-income families, communities of color, and women were hit hardest. As schools and universities shifted rapidly to remote learning, educators and parents scrambled to provide all students with…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Werschkul, Misha; Gault, Barbara; Caiazza, Amy; Hartmann ,Heidi – American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 2005
This publication is part of a joint project of the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation and the Institute for Women's Policy Research to analyze women's educational status in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The report includes detailed information on the educational status of women and the…
Descriptors: Family Income, Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Urban Areas
California State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. – 1973
California State Advisory Committee (SAC) of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held hearings in Santa Maria, California (May 20, 1972) to collect information on civil rights problems of Mexican American students in the Lucia Mar School District. Major issues were community complaints about the arrest of 26 Mexican American students and some…
Descriptors: Administration, American History, Civil Rights, Correctional Institutions
Braund, Robert A.; And Others – 1967
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is California's major source of funds for compensatory education programs designed to enhance the educational attainment of children from poverty backgrounds. The annual state evaluation report provides information on the distribution of Title I funds, the number of students served, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)