A recent poll conducted by the Policy Analysis for California Education and Rossier School of Education showed that California voters, by a slight majority, would support an increase in sales and income taxes in order to reduce budget cuts to...

A slim majority of Californians favor enacting Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s ballot initiative that would raise taxes in order to avoid further spending reductions in education and public safety, according to results from a new Policy Analysis for California...

The Los Angeles Unified School District’s ambitious construction of 131 new schools over the last decade has shrunk severely overcrowded campuses, giving elementary students a major academic boost–but not high schoolers, according to a study released today. Researchers at the...

Los Angeles Unified elementary students from overcrowded schools earned higher test scores after moving to newly built schools, but students in new high schools experienced no similar bump in scores, according to a policy brief released today.

Implementation of a $19 billion public works project to build hundreds of new Los Angeles Unified School District school facilities over the past few years to combat overcrowding was associated with an increase in student achievement, according to a UC Berkeley...

In a state where one in every four public K-12 students is an English-language learner, there’s a whole lot riding on how well California’s educators are able to support this population of students as they face the greater language demands...

Collaborative member Kenji Hakuta has co-authored a policy brief from the Policy Analysis for California Education research center, "How Next-Generation Standards and Assessments Can Foster Success for California’s English Learners." The report builds on the work done by the Understanding...

California cannot afford to ignore or postpone questions of how to support the academic success of its K-12 English learners. This group represents more than 40 percent of the state’s K-12 public education students, and its share of enrollment is...

Given more control over how they could spend state money, school districts not surprisingly chose survival over experimentation. And if legislators want otherwise—to encourage districts to innovate or target money on low-achieving students—then they should be more explicit about their...

These reports analyze the impact of the fiscal cutbacks on opportunity for higher education in the California State University system, the huge network of 23 universities that provides the bulk of bachelor-level education in the state. The CSU has a...

We continue a special live broadcast from Oakland's Castlemont High School on the dropout crisis in public schools. In this hour, we turn to policymakers and education reformers who have given this issue a lot of thought. Do they think...

Five years ago, Stanford's Institute for Research on Educational Policy and Practice (IREPP) released a landmark report on the state of education in California called "Getting Down to Facts." That project, led by education Professor Susanna Loeb, examined the state's...

Senioritis. Senior slump. The Year of the Zombies. Forget preparing for the rigors of college. The final year of high school is for sleeping in, flipping burgers, hanging out with pals, surfing, partying, fighting with your girlfriend, making up with...

Five years after a study by Stanford researchers called for reform and increased investment in California’s public education system, progress has been at best underwhelming and inconsistent, according to a new report from the independent Policy Analysis for California Education...

Five years after a blue-ribbon research report urged an overhaul of California’s school governance and finance systems, a follow-up finds that the organizational ailments highlighted in 2007 remain, and the financial picture has gotten worse. The original “Getting Down to Facts” report...

PACE poll results align with major findings from Stanford's Getting Down to Facts research project on California school finance and governance. Californians strongly believe local school districts should hold more control over how money is spent in public schools, and...

The latest five-year assessment of the state of California’s K-12 public school system — conducted by the Policy Analysis for California Education, an independent research center — reports small progress in the face of persistent as well as unanticipated challenges...

As California implements the Common Core State Standards and discusses ways to better link K-12 and postsecondary education systems, it is critical to understand how well the state’s current postsecondary and career readiness standards relate to each other and to...

Almost all the politics of education concerns rearranging adult power and privilege. Relatively little political energy is spent consciously designing a contemporary system of public education. That should change.

By focusing political energy on how students learn rather than the...

The White House issued a press release March 16 announcing that President Barack Obama intends to nominate Susanna Loeb, professor of education and director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis, to the National Board for Education Sciences. The National...

Governor Brian Sandoval today announced he has appointed, for the first time in Nevada history, a state superintendent of public instruction. Based in Las Vegas, James W. Guthrie will become Nevada’s superintendent of public instruction effective April 2. The selection...

Lower transportation costs. Less money spent on facilities and overhead. Increased teacher and student attendance. And higher test scores? New research suggests, perhaps counterintuitively, that the four-day school week not only doesn’t hurt student achievement, but seems to help. The...

Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget has cast a darker shadow over the future of hundreds of model high school programs that help prepare students for college and careers. About half of the nearly 500 California Partnership Academies, essentially “schools within...