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Stripling, Jack; Fuller, Andrea – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
In a long-simmering national fight over compensation for public-college presidents, the State of California emerged this year as the primary battleground. More than any other institution in recent memory, California State University has publicly and sometimes bitterly wrestled with a vexing question for higher education: How much does a public…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, College Presidents, Compensation (Remuneration), Salaries
Jenkins, Della; Englander, Katie – Research for Action, 2016
Policymakers are recognizing that Pennsylvania has fallen behind in providing equitable access to high quality early childhood education. Governor Tom Wolf ran on a campaign promise of universal pre-k access and proposed an unprecedented budget increase for early childhood programs in 2016. In Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney has made pre-k a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
Muenchow, Susan; Weinberg, Emily – Education Policy Center at American Institutes for Research, 2016
Worried about the large number of young children from low-income families entering school in their communities, many city and county leaders wonder whether quality preschool might help close the school readiness gap. Longitudinal studies of model programs that began decades ago show that these programs improved not only these children's school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Access to Education, Preschool Education
Agostini, Michael Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Heavily utilizing both instructional technology and face-to-face instruction within a bricks-and-mortar school environment, blended learning charter schools are gaining attention as a cost-effective school design. As educators turn to these blended learning school models to improve both the operational efficiency and student outcomes of America's…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Charter Schools, Case Studies, Leadership
Burns, Dion; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Scott, Caitlin – Learning Policy Institute, 2020
This brief summarizes successful strategies for creating a strong and stable teaching force. These strategies are drawn from "positive outlier" districts in California that have excelled at helping African American, Latino/a, and White students achieve at high levels on assessments of academic standards in English language arts and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
McConville, Shannon; Bohn, Sarah; Brooks, Bonnie – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
Many Californians face difficulties connecting to good jobs because of limited education. This is especially true for poor families who receive cash assistance from the state's CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids) program. Few CalWORKs parents have more than a high school degree, and many struggle to balance family and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Parents, Child Rearing
Columna, Luis; Cook, Allison; Foley, John T.; Bailey, JoEllen – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to systematically develop and validate an instrument to assess parental perceptions toward adapted physical education (APE) teachers, who work with children with autism. Methods: Participants included two expert panels and parents of children and youth with autism. The survey used a Likert-scale design where…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Parents, Parent Surveys, Parent Attitudes
TNTP, 2014
Nobody goes into teaching to get rich, but that's no excuse not to pay teachers as professionals. Compensation is one of the most important factors in determining who enters the teaching profession and how long they stay--yet 90 percent of all U.S. school districts pay teachers without any regard for their actual performance with students,…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), School Districts, Teacher Competencies
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2021
This report has been prepared to document the in-person instruction practices developed and implemented by colleges during the pandemic. The report is intended to provide assistance to California community colleges in planning for continuity of instruction when fully returning to in-person instruction for career and technical education (CTE)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education, Online Courses
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Sutcher, Leib; Carver-Thomas, Desiree – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
Teacher shortages have been worsening in California since 2015. After years of budget cuts and teacher layoffs, the passage of Proposition 30, officially titled Temporary Taxes to Fund Education, and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) brought more money back into California schools after 2014. Many districts began to hire again, looking to…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Certification, Public School Teachers
Wolf, Leni – Education Trust-West, 2015
In today's fast-moving and interconnected world, high school and college graduates must be able to think critically and generate creative solutions to address complex problems. With the world producing new knowledge at an exponential rate, we cannot anticipate what all these future challenges will be. Without a doubt, they will impact a society…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers, Low Income Students
Johannessen, B. Gloria Guzman; Thorsos, Nilsa; Dickinson, Gail – Education and Society, 2016
This study addresses public universities' policies and practices in the USA (United States of America) with a focus on public bilingual teacher preparation in Spanish-English programs (initial credential licensure and Masters of Education programs with, or without, endorsements). We questioned: "What do bilingual programs look like in public…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Teacher Education Programs, Program Implementation, Spanish
Suckow, Marjorie A.; Roby, Lynette – California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2016
Determining teacher supply in California is essential for policymakers as they analyze how current statutes and policies impact teacher recruitment, teaching incentives and teacher preparation. This report provides data collected by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (Commission) and addresses several questions regarding the supply of…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Credentials
An Initial Investigation into the Mathematical Background of Those Who Pass the CSET for Mathematics
Berglund, Jorgen – Issues in Teacher Education, 2013
Faced with a chronic shortage of single-subject mathematics teachers and a directive from the federal legislation "No Child Left Behind" that all students are taught by highly qualified teachers, California instituted a new subject-matter competency exam, the California Subject Exam for Teachers for Mathematics (CSET), and created a new…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Qualifications
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Goldhaber, Dan; Strunk, Katherine O.; Sutcher, Leib – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
California is experiencing one of its most severe teacher shortages in two decades. Budget cuts and layoffs resulting from the recession contributed to a steep decline in the number of teachers in California, falling from a high of 310,362 teachers in the 2007-08 school year to 283,836 four years later. Recent efforts, including Proposition 30 and…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Certification, Public School Teachers