Emlei Kuboyama

Director, Career Education and Professional Networks, Graduate School of Education,

Stanford University

Emlei Kuboyama is the director of careers and professional networks at Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she leads the development, execution, and evaluation of career education programs. She was formerly co-director of education enterprise programs and associate director of leadership degree programs at Stanford GSE, as well as an admissions specialist for MA/MBA and Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies (POLS) programs. She previously served as associate director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) at the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in education policy analysis and project management. Kuboyama was also an attorney for the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice, where she enforced federal civil rights laws, conducted investigations, and negotiated settlements. Kuboyama earned her MA in administration and policy analysis from Stanford University and her JD from Vanderbilt University Law School.

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Contributing topics

Education finance

Educational governance & policy

Educator workforce & effectiveness

Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes

Publications by Emlei Kuboyama

July 2003

California’s Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA)

Evaluation Findings and Implications

This report evaluates California's Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999, which aimed to hold schools accountable for student results. The brief summarizes the main findings and implications of the legislatively mandated, independent evaluation…

April 2003

Charter Schools and Inequality

National Disparities in Funding, Teacher Quality, and Student Support

Charter schools were intended to close the achievement gap and create tight-knit communities that motivate students and teachers. The assumption is that charter schools can avoid the disparities that public schools face. Recent data from the…

November 2002

Incentives for Attracting and Retaining K–12 Teachers

Lessons for Early Education

This policy brief discusses state initiatives in the US aimed at retaining and improving the quality of preschool and childcare staff, with a focus on California's $21 million annual investment. While K-12 reforms have been underway longer and are…

March 2001

Cracks in California's Child-Care System

Spring 2001 PACE Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 1.