Student Learning and Wellbeing
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Technical Report
Assessing Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs) Using Generative AI
This report uses generative AI to analyze thousands of LCAP goals and actions across California. It raises important questions about how local planning tools could become more measurable, strategic, and useful for improvement.
Technical Report
California Community Schools: Past, Present, and Early Impacts of the California Community Schools Partnership Program
This report examines the impact of California's $4.1 billion investment in community schools and illustrates how local leaders leveraged state funds to drive these outcomes. It highlights how the strategy has enabled early adopter sites to improve chronic absence and achievement, with historically underserved student groups (including Black students and Engish learners) benefitting the most.
Technical Report
Does Your Math Pathway Make a Difference? High School Mathematics and College Outcomes
This report studies high school math pathways and their relationship to college enrollment. It highlights how four years of math and access to advanced coursework can expand opportunity, especially for socioeconomically disadvantaged students.
Technical Report
High School Coursetaking in California: A Primer
This report examines students’ access to college- and career-preparatory coursework. It shows how course-taking patterns shape postsecondary opportunity and why access to advanced and A–G coursework matters.
Technical Report
Imagining the Educational Futures for Black Children in California
This report centers Black families’ aspirations for their children’s education. It describes schools that affirm identity, cultivate curiosity and dignity, and expand students’ sense of what is possible.
Technical Report
Learning from California’s Prior Reading Reforms
This report studies California’s recent literacy initiatives and what can be learned from their design. It shows that professional learning, funding, planning, and support can improve reading outcomes.
Technical Report
Material Hardship, Emotional Distress, and Early Learning Supports Among California Families with Young Children: Evidence from the RAPID California Voices Survey
This report uses the RAPID California Voices Survey to examine the lives of families with young children. It connects material hardship, emotional well-being, and early learning supports to broader questions about how California can support children before they enter school.
Technical Report
Navigating the Transition to College: LGBTQ+ Students’ High School Experiences and Academic Plans
This report examines LGBTQ+ students’ high school experiences and how these may influence their college plans. It highlights both challenges in school climate and students’ strong aspirations for postsecondary education.
Technical Report
Recent Academic Achievement Trends in California
This report analyzes two decades of California achievement trends. It shows where the state has made progress and where persistent disparities, especially in mathematics, continue to demand attention.
Technical Report
Supporting Immigrant-Origin Students in California’s Schools
This report examines immigrant-origin students’ educational experiences in California schools. It highlights the preparation, policies, and supports educators need to serve students and families of immigrant backgrounds well.
Technical Report
The Impact of Intervention: LCAP, Differentiated Assistance, and Resource Effectiveness in California School Districts
This report studies Differentiated Assistance and LCAP spending. It asks how intervention systems can better connect planning, resources, and improvement for districts needing support.
Technical Report
The State of Chronic Absenteeism in California: Projections, Reasons, and Solutions
This report documents California’s chronic absenteeism trends during and after the pandemic. It considers what it will take to accelerate recovery and support students whose attendance remains disrupted.
Technical Report
What California’s Latine Students, Families and Communities Want From and For Their Schools
This report centers the voices of Latine students, families, and communities. It describes the kinds of schools families want: places that offer safety, belonging, cultural affirmation, multilingual support, and meaningful engagement.
Technical Report
Who Benefits from Public PreK Expansions & Increased K-5 Spending? Dynamic Complementarity in California’s Education Policies
This report shows how California's investments in CSPP, TK, and elementary school spending delivered substantial, equity-enhancing gains in student achievement, and their effects reinforce one another across the preschool and early elementary grades. The results suggest that sequenced public investments in educational opportunity can produce developmental multiplier effects that exceed the sum of their independent effects.
Research Brief
Goals for Students and Schools in California: Broad Aspirations, Uneven Translation into Practice
This brief examines how California’s broad goals for student success are inconsistently defined and implemented, creating uneven educational opportunities and outcomes across schools.
Research Brief
Student Outcomes in California: Progress, Uneven Recovery, and Persistent Gaps
This brief analyzes student outcomes in California, showing uneven post-pandemic recovery and persistent achievement gaps across student groups and regions.
Research Brief
High School as a Launch Point: Opportunity, Development, and Redesign in California
This brief examines California high schools as a critical launch point for opportunity, highlighting the need for redesign to better support student development, engagement, and postsecondary pathways.
Research Brief
Student Well-Being in California’s Current Context: Policy, Conditions, and Supports
This brief examines student well-being in California, focusing on current policy conditions and available supports while highlighting gaps in addressing students’ mental health and overall needs.