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Video: Tracking Progress in Community College Access and Success
In 2019, Assembly Bill (AB) 705 dramatically broadened access to transfer-level courses in English and math at California’s community colleges. Have student outcomes improved since then? Last week,...
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Video: Assessing Transitional Kindergarten’s Impact on Elementary School...
California’s Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program provides an extra year of schooling within the K–12 system. Launched a decade ago with limited eligibility, TK will soon be open to all...
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Financing California’s Public Schools
One-time federal pandemic funds and increased state spending have contributed to record K–12 funding levels in recent years. In 2022–23, state, local, and federal funding for California K–12 public...
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Factors and Future Projections for K–12 Declining Enrollment
Over the past five years, enrollment has fallen in nearly three-quarters of California school districts, a trend that is expected to continue into the next decade. In a presentation of a new report,...
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Commentary: On California Funding Formula’s 10th Anniversary, Celebrate...
This commentary was published by EdSource on November 29, 2023. Former governor Jerry Brown headlines a party next week toasting the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), California’s ten-year-old...
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How Have California School Districts Used the Emergency Connectivity Fund?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing to close out its Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), which Congress authorized in 2021 to facilitate remote learning during the COVID-19...
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Wildfire Smoke Is a Threat to Children’s Health
Despite fewer wildfires in the past two years, the average number of days with heavy smoke in California’s air has been rising. Californians continue to express concern about wildfires, as the...
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Policy Brief: Factors and Future Projections for K–12 Declining Enrollment
Over the past five years, enrollment has declined at nearly three-quarters of California school districts, and losses are expected to continue across nearly all regions through at least the next...
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Factors and Future Projections for K–12 Declining Enrollment
Key Takeaways Over the past five years, enrollment has declined at nearly three-quarters of California school districts, bringing added fiscal pressures and difficult downsizing decisions. These losses...
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2023 Year in Review
Just under a year ago, I became president and CEO of PPIC. I had served for 32 years as a jurist before that—the last 12 as Chief Justice of California and leader of the judiciary. I chose PPIC because...
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Learning Recovery Is Uneven for Urban and Rural School Districts
Four years since the onset of the pandemic, progress in closing learning gaps for K–12 students is limited. Urban and rural districts have seen the slowest progress, with math and English proficiency...
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Chronic Absenteeism in K–12 Schools Remains Troublingly High
Chronic absenteeism—the share of students missing at least 10% of school days—increased dramatically during the pandemic, in California and across most US states. More recently, in the 2022–23 school...
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Testimony: California’s K–12 Digital Divide Has Narrowed, but Access Gaps...
PPIC senior fellow Niu Gao testified before the Assembly Education Committee on “Meeting the Post-Pandemic Academic, Well-Being, and Technology Needs of California Students” on February 21, 2024. Here...
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Student Homelessness Rises to Pre-Pandemic Levels
After three years of declines in California’s homeless K–12 student population, 2022–23 saw an increase in both the share and number of students experiencing homelessness. Recent cumulative enrollment...
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Student Homelessness Reaches 10% or Higher in Some Counties
Over 4% of all California K–12 students experienced homelessness in the 2022–23 school year, but the statewide average obscures differences and issues specific to each region. When trying to identify...
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Learning Recovery for Homeless Students Lags behind Other High-Need Groups
California actively targets funding to high-need students —low income, English learners, and foster youth—through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). Homeless students qualify as low-income and...
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California’s Digital Divide
Digital access is at an all-time high in California—and the digital divide has narrowed. A record-high 95% of Californians had access to internet—including satellite—at home in 2022, up from 92% in...
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California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System Hits Major Milestone
California’s Cradle to Career (C2C) system aims to shed light on the paths Californians take through the school system and into the workforce by linking individual-level data from a variety of state...
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Statewide Survey: Californians and Education
PPIC’s April survey explores Californians’ opinions of the quality of K–12 public education, school funding and resources, and state officials’ handling of the education system. The survey also...
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Video: Californians and Education
PPIC’s April survey explores the opinions of California adults—including parents with children enrolled in public school—about the quality of K–12 public education, school funding and resources, and...
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