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The Opportunity Institute (OI) released today its Future of Fiscal Reform Policy and Future Scenario Report made possible by a grant from the California 100 Initiative. For several months, the research team, led by OI fellow Patrick Murphy, examined where California has been in terms of fiscal policy, where it’s at and what the future holds.
This is the sixth and final blog in a blog series on Children’s Cabinets and integrated supports and services for children.
This is the fifth blog in a six-part blog series on Children’s Cabinets and integrated supports and services for children.
This is the fourth blog in a six part blog series on Children’s Cabinets and integrated supports and services for children.
This is the third blog in a six part blog series on Children’s Cabinets and integrated supports and services for children.
Check out our second blog in a new series of integrated supports and services for children.
This is the first blog in a six part blog series on Children’s Cabinets and integrated supports and services for children.
Decades of disinvestment in the Delta has led to under-resourced public schools, limiting the ability of people to grow their local economies. Read our blog w/@SouEcho that shows why we must invest in our school communities
The CSU system appears to be moving forward with the idea of requiring an additional quantitative reasoning course — but without first satisfying the faculty’s recommendation to study its potential impact.
What does it mean to connect mathematics to the pursuit of justice? For one thing, it means not letting math education interfere with justice.
It’s time to reconsider whether Algebra 2 really creates the opportunities we have long assumed and build more rigorous pathways that lead students to college.
Mentor-mentee relationships among formerly incarcerated students go beyond social, cultural, intellectual, and campus knowledge. These relationships can empower and transform the lives of students by increasing academic and employment opportunities.
Faculty and staff teaching in California prisons will get the opportunity to “practice what they preach” this fall when they convene in the woods for a weekend of wellness and professional development.
Every time I visit a prison classroom, I am asked the same question: When is the BA coming? The demand is real, and we owe it to the students to make it happen. The challenges, however, are equally real.
If the goal is to increase equitable access to advanced math, policies to address the three barriers highlighted by PPIC — not university admissions requirements — are the place to begin.
As a familiar debate continues about the elimination of federal guidance on reducing racial and disability disparities in the administration of school discipline, the need for constructive action has become even clearer.
A new report, published jointly by the Economic Policy Institute and the Opportunity Institute, urges policymakers and educators to join health care researchers and clinicians in paying greater attention to the contribution of “toxic stress” to deterioration in children’s academic performance, behavior, and health.
If the goal is to increase equitable access to advanced math, policies to address the three barriers highlighted by PPIC — not university admissions requirements — are the place to begin.
Publications
Unjust Legacy: How Proposition 13 Has Contributed to Intergenerational, Economic, and Racial Inequities in Schools and Communities
Teachers deserve quality retirement benefits. But according to our new report, teacher pensions have become more expensive for CA state and local leaders to maintain, even as the actual benefit for teachers has gotten worse. Check out the full report.
How has California's shift to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) impacted equitable resource allocation? Listen in as Maria Echaveste, President and CEO, and Christopher Edley, Co-founder, weigh in on the Budgeting for Educational Equity Podcast.
Our new joint brief with @LPI_Learning looks at the historic $3B investment in the California Community Schools Partnership Program that provides an opportunity to transform schools into community hubs that deliver a whole child education.
As we begin in-person learning, let’s reimagine what school systems could be doing for students, families, and educators who’ve been most affected by the pandemic and systemic racism.
In two policy briefs, we offer insights on how well the LCP requirements and districts’ responses supported effective planning and family engagement. We also offer recommendations on what state and local leaders should start, continue, and stop doing to support effective planning, transparency, accountability, and meaningful family engagement.
In spite of recent efforts to address inequality in California schools, the data show consistent patterns of inequality of student outcomes based on race, ethnicity, language, special education, and poverty; persistent state education policy problems impact already disadvantaged students most severely.
Partners for Each and Every Child and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) created this second handbook to support local engagement under ESSA. We hope that local leaders will use these resources together to better and more collaboratively include students, families, educators, and partners into the policymaking and implementation process.
Partners for Each and Every Child, the Dignity in Schools Campaign, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. have developed this toolkit to serve as a call to action and to empower parents, families, caregivers, students, and other community members with the information and tools they need to take action on ESSA in schools.
Read the full toolkit for tips on how community colleges and Sheriff's Departments can work together to offer high-quality college education inside county jails.
This new publication applauds the unprecedented growth in the number of California colleges teaching in correctional facilities and reaching formerly incarcerated students in the community, but warns of failure if the state does not focus on quality and sustainability.
A handbook from Partners for Each and Every Child and CCSSO focuses on how local leaders can plan and implement an effective stakeholder engagement strategy under ESSA.
Partners for has produced a comprehensive tool to be used by all states to assess their current stakeholder engagement efforts and further develop their engagement strategies.
This report documents mistakes, incompetence, and malfeasance in our criminal justice system. Not only are these systemic errors expensive—costing taxpayers an estimated $282 million adjusted for inflation—they also have serious and lifelong consequences on the people subject to these flawed prosecutions.