Superintendent Michelle King has asked managers in the Los Angeles Unified School District's central offices to submit plans outlining how they would slash their departments' budgets by 30 percent in the coming fiscal year. For managers to hit their cost-saving...

Californians are showing an increased faith and optimism in local public schools and teachers but believe there is room for improvement, according to the latest results of the fifth annual PACE/USC Rossier School of Education poll Twenty-three percent of Californians...

Parents are among the many Californians who say they have not heard or read about the state’s school funding and accountability system that aims to increase public input in school spending decisions, according to the latest results of the annual...

As the presidential election mercifully moves toward its conclusion, there are important education policy questions that will need to be answered in the coming years. Public opinion and its drivers could well influence state and national policy under the new...

California parents are getting behind some of the state’s most recent school accountability strategies, according to results from a new poll. Launched in March 2017, the California School Dashboard is an online tool that shows how schools are performing according...

Defenders of the Common Core national curriculum standards have a favorite tactic: deem opponents “misinformed.” This has been especially popular in response to plummeting public support for the Core, and pollsters behind a new Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)...

As Californians get their first look at new test results since 2013, a new poll shows state voters have mixed views on the Common Core State Standards, and their views shift with the way questions about the standards are posed...

As the California Department of Education prepares to release the first set of student test scores based on the Common Core State Standards, a new poll shows voters have mixed feelings about the new standards, including many who don’t understand what they are...

As kids across the country return to school, the results of a new poll suggest it’s adults who need a lesson on the Common Core State Standards, a set of end-of-grade expectations in math and English adopted by 44 states...

A report published this week by the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) and USC Rossier School of Education documents state voters’ opinions on a variety of issues, including teacher tenure, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Local...

Though far from a majority, an increasing number of Californians say that the state’s public schools have gotten better over the past few years, according to a poll released on Thursday. But it’s not because they are impressed with the...

Though far from a majority, an increasing number of Californians say that the state’s public schools have gotten better over the past few years, according to a poll released on Thursday. But it’s not because they are impressed with the...

As optimism about the state of California’s public schools continues to rise, a strong majority of California voters would back the reauthorization of Proposition 30 to channel additional money to public campuses, according to a new poll. The PACE/USC Rossier...

More than half of California voters said they knew nothing or very little about the state’s new Common Core standards for English language arts and math, according to a newly released report by the Policy Analysis for California Education/USC Rossier...

The move to local control under the state’s new funding and accountability system has given school districts much leeway in adopting the Common Core State Standards, the challenging math and English language arts standards that California and 41 other states...

Common Core, if even close to fairly presented, has either negative, or thinly positive, levels of public support. Two new polls came out showing even bigger trouble for the Core. The first was a Rasmussen survey that revealed plummeting support...

A strong majority of California voters oppose the state’s tenure and layoff policies for public school teachers, according to a new poll released just days after the landmark Vergara court case invalidated both statutes as unconstitutional. The PACE/USC Rossier School...

A new poll shows that two-thirds of California voters agree that the state should get rid of “Last in, First Out,” a teacher tenure policy that requires the newest K-12 teachers be laid off first, regardless of merit. Just 17...

An annual poll of Californians’ views on education contains bad news for teachers unions and advocates of the Common Core standards, good news for backers of charter schools, mixed news for preschool supporters and a warning for State Superintendent Tom...

California voters support weakening teacher job protections that were the subject of a high-profile trial in Los Angeles, according to a poll released Thursday. In that lawsuit, Vergara vs. California, advocates overturned rules that made it harder to fire teachers...

Despite calls from Sacramento to reduce standardized testing in California public schools, voters strongly support the use of state standardized tests, both as an essential way to measure student performance and as an important element in teachers’ evaluations, according to...

California’s accountability landscape has shifted dramatically in the past year, with the simultaneous adoption of three new and very different accountability regimes. The approval of SB 1458 requires major changes in the Academic Performance Index (API), which is the state’s...

Despite calls from Sacramento to reduce standardized testing in California public schools, voters strongly support the use of state standardized tests, both as an essential way to measure student performance and as an important element in teachers’ evaluations, a new...

Dr. Dominic Brewer was quoted in separate L.A. Times stories that covered the results of a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll about how Californians feel about public education.Brewer commented on the fact that a majority of California voters want teacher...