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: Civics and Democracy
Research/Report
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
All4Ed
A report describing four types of school credit transfer policies that policymakers should consider to ensure that students and taxpayers reap the full benefit of dual enrollment.
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.
Tool / Toolkit
Joint Board Resolution: Dual Enrollment Equitable Expansion
Education Trust, Inc.
A sample joint board resolution template for K-12 and community college district (CCD) boards to commit to dual enrollment.
Tool / Toolkit
Local Control and Accountability Plan Resources
Los Angeles Unified School District
A collection of public engagement resources to support adoption of the Local Control and Accountability Plan.
Policy Brief/Proposal
COYN 2023 Policy Agenda
New Ways to Work
A overview of the California Opportunity Youth Network (COYN)'s 2023 policy agenda, describing six issues and the actions that COYN will take to advance them.
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
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.
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.
Tool / Toolkit
Everyone, Everywhere: The Circles of Commitment Model
March For Our Lives
A presentation on the circles of commitment model for high-participation stakeholder engagement in political organizing.
Research/Report
Educating for a Diverse Democracy in California: The Growing Challenges of Political Conflict and Hostile Behavior
University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
A brief examining the degree to which the partisan leaning of the communities surrounding schools is related to important social and political dynamics in the schools.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
OK. So We Are Listening to Student Voices… Now What? Inclusive Strategy for Educational Transformation
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
A blog post describing how Deeper Learning is an inclusive, emergent strategy that educators can use to move from listening to student voices to taking action on their ideas and recommendations to transform the learning experience.
Research/Report
San José Public Library Foundation 2023 Impact Report
San José Public Library Foundation
A short impact report featuring images, graphics, charts, and words from 2023 about the SJ Aspires program, which partners directly with San José high school to give students the opportunity to claim scholarship dollars that they can use for education after high school by completing activities aligned with college and career readiness.
Framework/Guide
Framework: Essentials for Community School Transformation
Learning Policy Institute
A framework and graphic that specifies the motivation, people, conditions, practices and infrastructure of Community Schools.
Research/Report
Reorienting Public Education to Meet the Needs of Our Youth
The Opportunity Institute
A report sharing lessons learned from the Adolescent Learning and Development Project in Mississippi.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
California Announces Guaranteed Income Pilot Projects for Former Foster Youth
Fostering Media Connections
A news article about a $25 million project of the California Department of Social Services to fund seven guaranteed-income pilot projects serving pregnant women and young people aging out of the foster care system.
Research/Report
Educating for a Diverse Democracy: The Chilling Role of Political Conflict in Blue, Purple, and Red Communities
University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
A study that assesses how the partisan context of schools relates to their political conflict and democratic practices.
Research/Report
San José Public Library Foundation August 2022 Impact Report
San José Public Library Foundation
A short impact report featuring images, graphics, charts, and words from August 2022 about the SJ Aspires program, which partners directly with San José high school to give students the opportunity to claim scholarship dollars that they can use for education after high school by completing activities aligned with college and career readiness.
Story / Case Study / Commentary
Student Success + Youth Success = Field Success
KP Catalysts, LLC
An opinion essay commenting on initiatives by the Biden administration, including the National Partnership for Student Success and the Engage Every Student Initiative, aimed at bridging the gap between schools and community-based organizations to support holistic learning and development for students.