Education

A Golden Opportunity for education in the Golden State
150 150 Susan Lovenburg

Today, CA Fwd releases a document prepared in partnership with internationally acclaimed education reform practitioner Michael Fullan that suggests considerations for the recently created California Collaborative for Educational 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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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: 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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Uphold LCFF’s democratic process
150 150 Helen Hutchison

Opinion: School funding shift set to empower citizens but greater transparency needed to inform local decision-making.

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LCFF & Common Core: How Los Angeles Unified is managing both
150 150 Matthew Grant Anson

In this interview, CA Fwd spoke to the Los Angeles Unified School District finance department for its perspective on the ongoing changes.

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