Jennifer O'Day

Jennifer O'Day
Jennifer O'Day
Institute Fellow,
American Institutes for Research

Jennifer O’Day is an institute fellow at the American Institutes for Research. Over the past 25 years, she has completed research, advised national and state policy makers, and written extensively in the areas of systemic standards-based reform, educational equity, accountability, and capacity-building strategies. Her work has focused on strategies for intervening in low-performing, high-poverty schools identified under systems of local, state, and federal accountability. O’Day is the founder and chair of the California Collaborative on District Reform. In 2019, she and Marshall (Mike) Smith co-authored the book Opportunity for All: A Framework for Quality and Equality in Education. She received her PhD in education administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.

updated 2020

Publications by Jennifer O'Day
The Local Control Funding Formula in Year 3
This report seeks to help policymakers and others better understand ways in which LCFF implementation is changing fundamental aspects of resource allocation and governance in California’s K-12 education system. The LCFF provides all districts with…
Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Improvement
Accountability for student performance is on the minds of everyone in U.S. education—from policymakers to district administrators to principals. While the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has claimed center stage in the national…