INITIATIVE

CORE-PACE Research Partnership

CORE-PACE Research Partnership

In October 2015, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) and the CORE Districts launched the CORE-PACE Research Partnership. The CORE districts (Fresno, Garden Grove, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento City, San Francisco, and Santa Ana Unified School Districts) together serve nearly a million students and utilize a unique multiple measures data system to work together to improve student outcomes. Our research aims to deepen their learning, while sharing lessons more broadly to accelerate improvement across the state. Our work falls into three main areas: continuous improvement, social-emotional learning, and making use of multiple measures of student and school performance.

Topics Related to this Initiative
College access & postsecondary success
Continuous school improvement & support
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
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Recent Initiative Publications
Building Systems Knowledge for Continuous Improvement
Early lessons from the CORE districts
In California, recent policy shifts have created a high degree of local control with the expectation that school districts will think differently about school and district improvement. However, many districts lack the individual expertise and…
Learning From Early Adopters in the New Accountability Era: Insights From California’s CORE Waiver DIstricts
Learning From Early Adopters in the New Accountability Era
Insights From California’s CORE Waiver Districts
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents a notable shift in K–12 accountability, requiring a more comprehensive approach to assessing school performance and a less prescriptive approach to intervening in low-performing schools. This articles…
Exploring Improvement Science in Education
Promoting College Access in Fresno Unified School District
California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) requires districts to report multiple measures of student performance that reflect success in the goal of preparing students for college, career, and citizenship. As they engage in the Local Control…
SEL CC Report
Using Surveys of Students' Social-Emotional Skills and School Climate for Accountability and Continuous Improvement
This report and accompanying policy brief show that there is good reason to pursue the measurement of social-emotional learning (SEL) and school culture/climate (CC) as a way to better understand student and school performance. Using data from…