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Pivot Learning
California's Reading Dilemma
March 9, 2023

Can common ground be found on teaching reading in California?

A new paper aims to find consensus about literacy curriculum for English language learners and other students and early screeners for reading.

Zaidee Stavely
Reforms
December 9, 2022

Does your district have what it takes to significantly improve?

Pivot Learning releases the District Readiness Index, a database for measuring how well California districts have met the conditions needed to make sustainable change.

John Fensterwald
Podcast
July 7, 2022

How Prop 13 widened the wealth and education gap in California

A new analysis concludes that Prop 13 contributed to a widening wealth gap and – for decades – inadequate funding for public schools.

EdSource staff
School Finance
June 22, 2022

California Prop. 13’s 'unjust legacy' detailed in critical study

Study recommends no specific fix to 1978 property tax limit initiative, but the Opportunity Institute and Pivot Learning cite many reasons to consider reforms.

John Fensterwald
Commentary
February 17, 2022

To fix our education crisis, let’s focus on educating

California's education system is doing a woeful job of teaching Black and Latino students.

Arun Ramanathan
Commentary
May 6, 2020

We need state leadership to re-start K-12 education

Just as they are being asked to do more, districts will have less.

Arun K. Ramanathan
Teachers' Pensions: Who Pays?
November 14, 2019

Pension costs feed resistance to higher school taxes in California county, study finds

An increase in mandated costs has frustrated voters in Marin County, where passing school parcel taxes had been a safe bet until 2016.

John Fensterwald
Local Control Funding Formula
February 12, 2018

Creating a 'test kitchen' to come up with a better school accountability plan in California

Defenders of local control worry time is running out to develop models that work for parents and districts

John Fensterwald
The Common Core Challenge
February 8, 2017

New website provides information about Common Core materials

Reviews of math and English language arts materials, along with a list of materials recommended by the California Board of Education, are available online.

Theresa Harrington
State Education Policy
August 24, 2016

Higher test scores, yes, but no narrowing of achievement gaps in California

Smarter Balanced scores show some groups exceed average while English learners lag.

John Fensterwald
Discipline
October 2, 2014

State introduces tools for school change

With districts working this fall to put into action their first locally created school accountability plans, the California Department of Education rolled out a new online resource center on Thursday designed to help schools change.

Jane Meredith Adams
Commentary
December 9, 2011

Facing some inconvenient truths about reforming teacher evaluations

Merrill Vargo