Topic: Transforming Systems for Equity

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Advancing LCFF Equity and Accountability

National Education Policy Center

More than a decade after the Local Control Funding Formula was enacted, this policy memo outlines key changes to strengthen equity and accountability and to address persistent opportunity gaps inside and outside schools.

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Highly Mobile Youth: How State Policy and Local Implementation Can Work Together to Support Youth

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

In collaboration with WestEd, this case study of Colorado and Washington’s approaches to supporting highly mobile youth—students experiencing homelessness, foster care, migrant mobility, or juvenile justice involvement—highlights distinct models, challenges, and lessons learned for supporting youth.

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The Economic Milestones of Young Californians

Public Policy Institute of California

This report provides new context on how young Californians are progressing along key economic milestones and how these patterns have changed over time.

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Healthy Minds, Strong-Futures: Aligning Systems to Advance Adolescent Development for Youth in Foster Care

All4Ed

This report examines the intersection of education, health, and child welfare systems in the lives of youth in foster care. It highlights the potential of school-based approaches and presents actionable recommendations to reduce barriers that prevent youth in foster care from having their health and educational needs met.

Youth Workforce Development in California: Overview, Initiatives, and Best Practices

California Opportunity Youth Network and New Ways to Work

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of efforts in California to equip young individuals with essential skills and create pathways for personal and professional growth.

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Revisiting California’s Invisible Achievement Gap: Trends in Education Outcomes of Students in Foster Care in the Context of the Local Control Funding Formula

WestEd

Following up on a landmark 2013 study, this report revisits the educational challenges faced by K–12 students in foster care, assessing progress since major policy reforms that intended to improve education for youth in foster care.

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Supporting Black Student and Educator Success: Reimagining Higher Education Institutions Through an African-Centric Lens

UC Davis Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research

This brief documents learning journeys focused on strengthening experiences and outcomes for Black students, who are underrepresented in both college enrollment and success.

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Often Overlooked but Not Unseen: An Overview of Highly Mobile Youth in the U.S.

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

This brief provides a close look at the needs of highly mobile youth, identifies the systematic barriers these students face, and proposes targeted interventions to address their needs.

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California’s Local Control Funding Formula: Next Steps Toward Equity

Learning Policy Institute

This report reviews how California’s Local Control Funding Formula has helped to improve student outcomes, points to challenges in its fiscal design, and highlights opportunities to strengthen it.

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Learner-Centered Ecosystem

Learner-Centered Collaborative

This resource outlines a new framework for education systems and learning experiences to create a learner-centered paradigm that brings out the best in each and every learner.

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Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A study that explores how youth in foster care experience the foster care system, high school, and college, offering recommendations for these systems to better support these young people.

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The Costs of Conflict: The Fiscal Impact of Culturally Divisive Conflict on Public Schools in the United States

University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

A survey of school superintendents provides estimates of the fiscal and other costs of culturally divisive conflicts that are disrupting school districts, schools, and classrooms.

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Redesigning High School: 10 Features for Success

Learning Policy Institute

A report that highlights ten features of effectively redesigned high schools and examples of schools putting these features into practice to create powerful learning opportunities for youth.

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On the Threshold of Change

California Youth Connection

A report using strategic foresight to develop a vision in response to the future forces that will dramatically change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people who will experience foster care over the next decade as they make the difficult transition to adulthood.

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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.

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California’s Future is Clocked In: The Experiences of Young Workers

University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

A report focused on the conditions of young workers aged 16 to 24 in the state of California.

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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.

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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.

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Addressing Inequities in College Preparatory Course-Taking

University of California Davis, School of Education

A report examining the variation in statewide participation in college-prepatory courses, including A-G courses, college-credit coursework, and the level of math courses that students take their senior year.

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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.

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