Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Analyzes state policy options for incorporating direct assessments of children into the design, implementation, and evaluation of quality rating and improvement systems and other quality improvement efforts to determine the impact on child outcomes.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Examines how the state's licensed early childcare and education providers would rate according to the proposed system based on ratio and group size, teaching and learning, family involvement, staff education and training, and program leadership.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Civil Society;Education and Literacy;Nonprofits and Philanthropy
Examines how many low-income students and students of color complete neither the courses required to apply to a four-year public university nor career technical education courses. Calls for integrated, equitable approaches to college and career readiness.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Presents survey findings about Californians' views on the quality, affordability, and funding of and policy regarding higher education. Analyzes support for various options for maintaining funding, including tax increases, fee hikes, and a bond measure.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
Education and Literacy, Energy and Environment, Government Reform
Updates, with 2011 data, policy issues, underlying factors, needs, projections, and outlook for the state's budget, climate change effects, economy, education, population, transportation, water management, and workforce.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Examines state data on participation in non-parental care prior to kindergarten by age and type of care setting - center-based, relative, or non-relative care - including subsidized early childhood education by publicly funded program.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Children and Youth, Education and Literacy
Examines how well the state's professional development system prepares the early care workforce, provides ongoing support to ensure high-quality early childhood education, and effectively uses public resources to maximize benefit.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Western)-California
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Examines the effects of the state's higher education spending cuts on enrollment rates of eligible, highly prepared students at the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges systems. Outlines implications.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Western) / California
