Community Services

Year in Review: Community Corrections
150 150 Christopher Nelson

Perhaps no other project area under the California Forward has achieved so much in a single year while also taking on so much more to start the next than the Partnership for Community Excellence

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Year in Review: LCFF and CA Fwd’s partnership with CSBA
150 150 Ed Coghlan

CSBA and CA Fwd are convening a statewide LCFF collaborative working group of 17 school districts and county offices of education to determine best practices to fit any size county or office of education

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Reforms need time and leadership, board has power to sustain both
150 150 Christopher Maricle

Average tenure of superintendents across the country has dropped slightly to 3.2 years for large urban districts. Is this a trend that we should be concerned about?

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VIDEO: CSBA collaborative key to making sense of LCFF
150 150 Christopher Nelson

The California School Board Association has gathered together 15 school districts and 2 boards of education, along with the help of CA Fwd, to navigate the law that affords each much more control over spending

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CA Fwd and CSBA come together for LCFF “living laboratory”
150 150 Christopher Nelson

It’s significant when 17 school districts and county offices of education agree to participate in a pilot program designed to figure out best practices for the rest of the state on LCFF and LCAP implementation.

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VIDEO: Rethinking offender care in Santa Barbara County
150 150 Christopher Nelson

Now almost three years into AB 109, counties like Santa Barbara are allocating resources toward programming that stops recidivism in its tracks

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Don’t call “government innovation” in California an oxymoron
150 150 Jim Mayer

On Tuesday in the Capitol, the Committee on the Awards for Innovations in Higher Education outlined its plans for allocating $50 million to community colleges and universities

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VIDEO: Californians seek greater transparency in local school funding
150 150 Ed Coghlan

Hundreds of Californians attended the State Board of Education meeting in Sacramento last week to encourage more flexibility and transparency in the process.

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