Members of the California State Board seemed finally ready to push the state’s data and accountability system to track student progress over time, an action that has been urged in the state by experts, advocates, and even federal education officials since 2015. Due to the...
The Edunomics Lab is also reporting that California has now released school-by-school expenditure data for the 2018-19 school year, leaving Pennsylvania as the final state yet to meet the ESSA reporting requirement. For easy access to each state’s per-pupil spending data, visits the Edunomics Lab’s...
A new set of recommendations from the California Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission says schools in the state should become community-based “wellness centers” that coordinate mental and other health services through new partnerships with local and regional nonprofit providers. The commission sites a...
Like states across the country, California has had to make some major changes to its accountability system to adapt to the monumental challenges the coronavirus pandemic has posed for educators. This informative Q&A from EdSource helps provide a quick overview on where things currently stand...
“The most inexperienced and least qualified teachers continue to teach in schools with the highest-needs students in California,” reports John Fensterwald for EdSource. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, school districts are required “to write plans on how they would eliminate disparities in staffing in...
Many school districts in California are “struggling to live up to a now three-year-old federal requirement,” originally set by the Every Student Succeeds Act, to “ensure foster youth have educational stability.” Under ESSA, educational and child welfare agencies are to collaborate “to create transportation plans...
In this exploration of the educational challenges facing California’s foster youth, Margaret Olmos, Jessica Maxwell, and Vanessa Hernandez note that ESSA “requires that county offices of education and school districts collaborate with county child welfare agencies to ensure educational stability and address protocols for school...
According to John Fensterwald at EdSource, California “may soon join most states in creating a 5-year high school graduation rate as a way of crediting districts and high schools that help students who return to school after senior year to earn a diploma.” This new...
In this piece, Aaron Garth Smith takes a look at California’s latest increase in education funding. Garth Smith argues that the additional funding must be accompanied by more effectiveness, citing that under ESSA, states have to publicly report school-level, per-pupil spending. “Since California has to...
“Like California, 24 states across the country are measuring school climate, including 10 that are providing resources to improve social and emotional learning, according to the Learning Policy Institute,” writes Julie Patel Liss for EdSource. “Amid a growing body of research about the role of...
