Grantee Resources

Topic: Systems Change

Tool / Toolkit

Spend It On Schools

Partnership for the Future of Learning

An interactive tool that helps to reimagine public education by making big numbers easily accessible: compare funding in different areas of major annual spending alongside $125 billion in federal investments and prioritize funds towards different expenses that can improve public education for students, educators, and families.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

California School Bonds on the November 2020 Ballot: Are they equitable?

University of California, Berkeley

A blog post describing the persistent disparities in school facility funding in California, highlighting the inequitable access to funds based on district characteristics and the lack of state support as demonstrated by the November 2020 election results.

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Research/Report

Research Brief: Lessons from a year of equitable, authentic engagement of young people in long-range regional planning

Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development

A research brief offering insights into the importance of engaging young people in local government decision-making processes, highlighting the Youth-Plan, Learn, Act, Now (Y-PLAN) approach as a powerful way to integrate youth voices in long-range regional planning.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The Equity 8 – California’s Key Legislative Principles: 2020

Education Trust, Inc.

Ed Trust-West's annual analysis of the California budget and proposed legislation for 2020, identifying 8 key proposals with the potential to advance educational equity and justice for California’s students and educators; special COVID-19 edition focused on addressing the needs of students of colors and students from lower income communities in the wake of the pandemic.

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Advancing Equity at Scale-Up: Research Priorities for College and Career Pathways

University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education

A report summarizing a three-year project designed to stimulate collaboration, build capacity, and prioritize research that can support equity in college and career pathways students' success.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

A Vision for California’s Schools this Fall: Equity for Dual Language and English Learners in an Unprecedented Moment

Education Trust, Inc.

A series of concrete, actionable ideas for how local and state education leaders can ensure that California's English learner and dual language learner (DLL) students were considered in return to school in fall 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

The Devil Is in the Details

Michael Fullan Enterprises Inc.

A book sharing how we can rethink the education and its three levels of leadership—local, middle, and top—so that each level can contribute to turnaround for education and society.

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