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This section provides a variety of tools that allow you to explore education data at the local, state and national level.
September 17, 2018

Multifaceted reforms needed to reach California’s education goals, research project finds

Getting Down to Facts II finds strong support for education reforms but also obstacles to student achievement and a need for more funding.

John Fensterwald
September 17, 2018

Essential Guide to Getting Down to Facts II

Here are the take-aways from the studies on special education, funding needs, a teacher shortage, a data deficit, student mental health local control's unmet potential – and more.

John Fensterwald, Daniel J. Willis, Yuxuan Xie, And Justin Allen
September 4, 2018

New ‘friendlier’ look coming for California’s school dashboard

Complaints that the state education data web site was too difficult to understand led to redesigned version.

John Fensterwald
August 8, 2018

Support builds to create longitudinal data system to track student progress in California

Educators and the public do not have data that "in my view greatly improve students' performance and their ultimate employment," said Sen. Steve Glazer (D – Orinda), chair of the select committee on student success in the Senate.

Mikhail Zinshteyn
July 19, 2018

More student borrowers may be eligible to cancel federal student loans than have applied for relief

Amid for-profit college closures, more student borrowers apply to the U.S. Department of Education to cancel their federal education loan debts.

Solomon Moore
July 19, 2018

Searchable database: For-profit colleges in California 2010-16

Daniel J. Willis And Justin Allen
June 25, 2018

Interactive feature: Teacher pay by experience level in San Francisco Bay Area 2017-18

Compare teacher salaries by experience and pay level for school districts in 6 Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara

Yuxuan Xie
May 25, 2018

The race for California schools chief: campaign funding update

Campaign finance data for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction Race for California, 2018

Justin Allen, Daniel J. Willis, And John Fensterwald
April 17, 2018

Child poverty drops in California, but is still the nation’s highest

22.8 percent of the state's children are living below the poverty threshold

Carolyn Jones
April 1, 2018

More questions surface on accuracy of California school absentee data

The California Department of Education adds warnings to its website of inaccurate chronic absenteeism data.

Nico Savidge
April 1, 2018

Chronic absence rates high at many California continuation schools

Continuation schools can be a last chance for a diploma, but state data shows many struggle to get students to attend each day.

Nico Savidge
December 7, 2017

Search and compare data from the California School Dashboard, 2017

Search and compare all California public schools, districts, cities and counties for data from the state's new school accountability dashboard.

Justin Allen, Daniel J. Willis, And Yuxuan Xie
December 5, 2017

Database on chronic absenteeism in California schools 2016-17

Search EdSource's database to find the chronic absenteeism rate (the percentage of students who miss 10 percent or more of instructional days) for all California schools by grade level.

Daniel J. Willis
December 5, 2017

More than 1 in 10 California students are 'chronically absent'

For the first time, California releases data for every school on students who were chronically absent last year -- defined as those who miss 10 percent or more of instructional days during the school year.

Lee Romney And Daniel J. Willis
November 1, 2017

Suspension, expulsion rates fall sharply in California, but racial and ethnic disparities remain

New state data shows 46 percent drop in school suspensions over the last five years. The suspension rate for African American students in 2016-17 was 9.8 percent, for Latino students 3.7 percent, for white students 3.2 percent, and for Asian students 1.1 percent.

Carolyn Jones