Two privately funded studies, issued this fall, highlight the progress and problems of California’s schools and make numerous and expensive suggestions for improvement. Those studies and their recommendations: Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), a research group based at Stanford...

California faces a critical shortage of classroom space to accommodate a deluge of new public school students expected in the next decade. The state Department of Finance has forecast an enrollment jump of more than one million students—a 26.5% increase—in...