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Download full textMatthew Richmond; Carrie Hahnel; Linea Harding; Nick Lee – Bellwether, 2024
Most Americans today need some education beyond high school to secure a well-paying job, and higher education is a key factor in social and economic mobility. But higher education is not accessible to all students. To further equalize opportunity, states must understand options for improving the way they fund higher education. America's public…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Higher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSarah Novicoff; Sean F. Reardon; Rucker C. Johnson – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
California's K-12 funding and instructional policies for English learners (ELs) have changed significantly over the past 2 decades, including new requirements for instructional materials specific to ELs statewide and a new school funding system that funds ELs at a higher rate. These major policy shifts held the potential to change student learning…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Mays, Alex; O'Rourke, Lena – Healthy Schools Campaign, 2021
When the novel coronavirus forced school buildings to close, causing a massive disruption in the delivery of these services, it exposed the extent to which schools function as an essential component of a comprehensive health system, particularly for children in low-income communities. In response to the closures, state and federal decision-makers…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Health Care, School Closing
Cottingham, Benjamin W. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
California districts were forced to shift to distance learning models in the spring of 2020 and the transition to distance learning for students in the early grades--transitional kindergarten through third grade (TK-3)--has proved difficult for students, parents, and teachers alike. As distance learning persists, administrators and teachers can…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, School Closing
Muñiz, Jenny – New America, 2020
For many non-traditional candidates, the path into teaching is riddled with bumps and detours. They must pay for increasingly expensive coursework and certification costs, attend classes that conflict with work schedules, and forgo wages to complete unfunded student teaching requirements. These roadblocks can deter valuable local…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Nontraditional Students, Barriers, Grants
Jain, Liz S.; Vincent, Jefrey M. – Center for Cities & Schools, 2016
Public school districts across California, particularly those in low-wealth areas, experience significant funding shortfalls for their facilities. Industry benchmarks suggest the state's K-12 school districts should spend nearly $18 billion a year to maintain their inventory, ensure buildings are up-to-date, and to build new spaces to handle…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Facilities, Financial Support, State Aid
Bell, Charles – New America, 2022
In April 2021, New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI) and the Philanthropication thru Privatization Project (PtP) released a joint proposal that the federal government should invest a substantial portion of the windfall proceeds from future auctions of public airwaves (spectrum) to seed a new Digital Equity Foundation dedicated to…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Governance, Accountability, Public Agencies
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
Landa, Cady – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2017
This self-assessment tool was developed for those who wish to embark on state-wide governmental systems change to improve high school transition and employment outcomes for youth and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Its purpose is to aid in the development of a work plan that is based on a review of the state…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Youth, Young Adults, Intellectual Disability
Center for Cities & Schools, 2015
The Governor, members of the legislature and other key stakeholders have identified concerns about the State of California's approach to funding K-12 school facilities, but they have not yet formulated a consensus going forward on the state role and responsibilities for school district facilities. To inform the school facilities funding policy…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Vincent, Jeffrey M.; Gross, Liz S. – Center for Cities & Schools, 2015
K-12 public school facilities need regular investment to ensure student health and safety and support educational programming. Yet, the future of K-12 school facility funding in California is uncertain. A strong state-local partnership has existed that funded new construction, modernization, and other investments in public school facilities across…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Taliaferro, Wayne; Pham, Duy – Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 2017
This brief examines how California is aligning education and training opportunities for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated. It is the first report in our series "Reconnecting Justice in the States," which will explore coordinated justice, education, and workforce policy and practice at the state level. It is part of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Social Justice, Change Strategies
Direct linkWarren, Paul; Murphy, Patrick – Public Policy Institute of California, 2014
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Local Control Funding Formula are introducing major changes to California's K-12 system. Implementation of new curricula and instruction is under way at the district level, but California started its transition relatively late and it has taken a more decentralized approach than most other states.…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas, Capacity Building
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of California's famed Master Plan for Higher Education, arguably the single most influential effort to plan the future of a system of higher education in the annals of American higher education. This essay builds on the analysis offered in a previous CSHE research paper ("From Chaos to Order and Back") by…
Descriptors: Labor Needs, Higher Education, Financial Problems, Open Universities
Harr-Robins, Jenifer J.; Shambaugh, Larisa S.; Parrish, Tom – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2009
Response to intervention (RTI) can be both a system for providing early interventions to struggling students and a special education diagnostic tool for evaluating and identifying students with specific learning disabilities. Contributing to the very limited literature on state-level approaches, this report describes how nine states define and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Diagnosis, Learning Disabilities, State Programs
