As pension costs continue to soar, they are taking up a bigger share of the new funding that districts receive each year. Meeting their pension obligations and other rising costs limits the ability of districts to fund other academic and student support programs or increase pay...

In The 74, writer Kate Stringer reports on how the Long Beach Unified School District and other CORE Districts are tracking students’ growth in both academic and social-emotional skills. Long Beach Unified is part of the CORE-PACE Research Partnership, established in...

In a highly anticipated but narrow decision on pensions for teachers and other state and local public employees, the California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the elimination of a retirement benefit in the 2012 pension reform law that then-Gov. Jerry...

The recently released University of Southern California Rossier School of Education/Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) poll was cited by The Mercury News. The article reports that recent teacher strikes in Oakland and Los Angeles have galvanized public support for...

We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make decisions be...

Crafting successful education policy requires evidence. Generating this evidence requires data that do not currently exist, or are not used to their full potential, in California. An integrated educational data system would arm teachers, schools, districts, service providers, and policy...

Host Joseph Pace and guests discuss the policy and funding issues underlying Oakland and California’s public school crisis.  What solutions exist to get our schools back in session and back on track?

Instead of the “culture of compliance” that had permeated the public education system, the California Way reorients districts, counties, and the state to the principle and practice of “subsidiarity,” or local control. In partnership with students, families, and communities, school...

A new analysis by the Palo Alto-based nonprofit Learning Policy Institute calls for doubling down on efforts to deepen and strengthen “one of the country’s most ambitious equity-focused education reforms.” LPI’s report cites multiple publications from PACE and Getting Down...

Most of the students who set out to earn degrees in California community colleges never do. The reasons behind these low rates of persistence and completion have long been a focus of policy and popular concern, and a variety of...

California’s superintendents overwhelmingly support the state’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and its underlying goal of promoting more equitable allocation of resources for high-needs students, according to the first comprehensive survey of how district superintendents view the five-year-old law. In...

In a recently released PACE/Rossier poll, California voters identified reducing gun violence as the top priority for schools in the state. Voters also support addressing college costs, support for teachers’ strikes, holding charter schools accountable, and changing the property tax...

In a new poll from PACE/Rossier, California voters said that their top education priority was reducing gun violence in schools, with more than half of respondents saying it was “very important.” College affordability was also identified as a pressing issue...

School safety and college affordability are the most pressing issues in education, California voters said in a ew poll. The top priority overall was reducing gun violence in schools, with more than half of respondents saying it was “very important.”...

School safety and college affordability are the most pressing issues in education, California voters said in a new poll. The top priority overall was reducing gun violence in schools, with more than half of respondents saying it was “very important.”...

Do the early polls on possible changes to California’s Proposition 13 tell us anything about this controversial and certain to be hotly contested issue?

As student government president for the California Community Colleges, Iiyshaa Youngblood represents millions of people who scrape to pay for, and complete, even a two-year degree program. So you might expect the Inland Empire psychology major to be excited about...

School safety and college affordability are the most pressing issues in education, California voters said in a new poll. The top priority overall was reducing gun violence in schools, with more than half of respondents saying it was “very important.”...

A recent poll of 2,000 registered voters released by the nonprofit policy and research organization PACE and the USC Rossier School of Education, ranked making schools safe from gun violence and college affordability the most important education issues in California...

Californians overwhelmingly support Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent proposals to increase funding for all levels of education and are optimistic that he and the legislature can work together to accomplish a lot, a new poll found.

With a new governor who has proposed making a historic investment in programs to support young children and families, Californians with interest in early childhood policy have a lot to talk about these days. Last Thursday, they had their chance...

The annual USC Rossier/PACE poll of voters was cited in LA Times reporting on a meeting of California lawmakers with former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was gravely wounded in a 2011 mass shooting. The legislators agreed to...

A recent poll of 2,000 registered voters released by the nonprofit policy and research organization PACE and the USC Rossier School of Education, ranked making schools safe from gun violence and college affordability the most important education issues in California...

The increasing focus on school climate and students' relationships to their peers and their schools is a potentially powerful catalyst for school improvement and student achievement. How to measure school climate and students' social and emotional development with confidence? For...

Education Week article by Evie Blad describes a report coordinated by the CORE-PACE Research Partnership. The report looks at the experiences of the Fresno Unified School District, part of the CORE districts, a group of California school systems that regularly...