A handbook for state and local school leaders on engagement in school improvement efforts, including how to engage on needs assessments and priority-building, school improvement strategies, and resource alignment.

A summary of findings from a study examining whether and how Parent Teacher Home Visits helps to interrupt implicit biases that educators and families may have about each other.

A handbook for state and local education leaders that includes information about why engagement is essential to planning, strategies for making engagement more effective, and tools for building an engagement strategy.

A report tracking the distribution of $3.8 billion in local control funding formula (LCFF) funds in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) from 2013 to 2017.

A case study about the concept of Professional Capital in action at Long Beach Unified School District in California, describing the district's core strategies to create system coherence and cultivate professional capital.

A report focused on whole-child education approaches in secondary education, specifically looking at the initiatives that impact high school educators and students.

A peer-reviewed field report that describes how high school students from Richmond, California used the Youth - Plan, Learn, Act, Now (Y-PLAN) program to actively participate in the planning and transformation of their school, neighborhoods, and city.

A report examining the work of the Los Angeles Forum for Equity, a nonpartisan convening of community organizations, civic leaders, and scholars committed to schools that yield equitable results for Los Angeles students and families.

The Education Trust West's policy agenda for 2013.

A report examining the relationship between funding and student disadvantage and addresses questions about converting the current school finance system to a weighted pupil formula.