Report / Research
Youth Civic Empowerment
YouthTruth
A report offering insight into the current state of youth civic empowerment, revealing troubling patterns of inequity in civic readiness.
Topic: Belonging and Wellbeing
Policy Brief/Proposal
The Urgent Need for Child-Centered Artificial Intelligence Policies
National Center for Youth Law
This brief is a call to action for policymakers and stakeholders to prioritize the interests and rights of children and youth in discussions about AI regulation and policy.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
How Bay Area Youth Distributed 2.4M
Northern California Grantmakers
A video about the Generational Recovery Fund (GRF), a youth-led, time-limited Bay Area regional pooled fund that invested in helping Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) youth to successfully navigate their recovery from the harms of COVID-19.
Framework/Guide
Expanding Horizons
Partnership for Children & Youth
A report that makes the case for investing in expaned learning for older youth, offers compelling evidence of their benefits, provides examples of what these programs look like in action, and charts a path forward for public policy advocates and education leaders.
Research/Report
School Funding Effectiveness: Evidence From California’s Local Control Funding Formula
Learning Policy Institute
A study investigating the impacts of LCFF-induced increases in per-pupil spending on student achievement and behavioral outcomes.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Districts must empower teachers to lead the way for whole-child education
University of South Carolina, College of Education
An op-ed arguing for and offering creative suggestions for schools to adopt whole-child approaches.
Research/Report
Put your money on the table: Interagency Coordination to Address the Crisis in Student Mental and Behavioral Health
WestEd
A report showing how county offices of education (COEs) play a critical role in coordinating and integrating services with other child-serving agencies to serve students and families more effectively.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Equitable School Funding
Californians for Justice
A webpage about the fight for equitable school funding and the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in California.
Tool / Toolkit
CASEL’s District Resource Center
CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
A collection of resources to help school districts make social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of every student's education.
Tool / Toolkit
CASEL’s State Resource Center
CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
A webpage curated for state leaders and informed by the Collaborating States Initiative, to help state education agencies create and promote state-level social and emotional learning (SEL) practices and policies.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
2023 California Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being
Children Now
An interactive online report that presents a comprehensive picture of children's health, education, and welfare in California's 58 counties for 2023.
Policy Brief/Proposal
The 2023 Pro-Kid Policy Agenda
Children Now
A comprehensive state-level policy roadmap to ensure that all California children have the necessary supports to reach their full potential.
Policy Brief/Proposal
The Equity 8 – California’s Key Legislative Proposals: 2023
Education Trust, Inc.
Ed Trust-West's annual analysis of the California budget and proposed legislation for 2023, identifying 8 key proposals with the potential to advance educational equity and justice for California’s students and educators.
Tool / Toolkit
Community Schools Story Map
Partnership for the Future of Learning
An interactive map of stories about community schools and the impact they're having across the United States.
Research/Report
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Foster(ing) Youth in the California State University: Understanding the Vital Role of Campus Support Programs
University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools
A study providing an analysis of California State University's campus-based support programs for students with foster care experience.
Research/Report
Community Schooling Issue 4
Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development
A multimedia publication from the UCLA Center for Community Schooling featuring public scholarship to inform the collective struggle for democracy, justice, and public education.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
An Alternative Option for Newcomer High School Students with Interrupted Formal Schooling
Stanford University Graduate School of Education, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
A profile of California Alternative Education describing the efforts of Rudsdale Newcomer High School.
Webinar / Video / Podcast
Achieving School Alignment
All4Ed
A podcast featuring discussion with Dr. Lorraine Perez, Deputy Superintendent at the Santa Ana Unified School District.
Policy Brief/Proposal
First Look: Understanding the Governor’s 2023-24 May Revision
California Budget & Policy Center
A report outlining key pieces of the California governor's May 2023-24 Revision and exploring how the governor prioritized spending amid the first budget shortfall of his tenure.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Re-Centering Youth Work Across Systems
KP Catalysts, LLC
An opinion essay discussing the importance of reclaiming and reimagining youth work, focusing on meeting youth where they are, creating healing-centered spaces, building healthy communities, and putting resources directly into the hands of young people.