Education

LCFF & Common Core: How Los Angeles Unified is managing both
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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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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Families in Schools brings authentic parent engagement to Huntington Park
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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Last week’s LCFF Community Dialogue in Huntington Park hosted by Families in Schools painted a clear picture of authentic parent engagement and what happens when parents are engaged and valued.

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LCFF tour brings clarity to new school funding law
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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California Forward is teaming with the California School Boards Association in a statewide tour to help school board members effectively implement the Local Control Funding Formula and develop Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP).

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What the Framework poll results tell us
 150 150 Richard Raya
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Over the last few weeks, we asked Californians to weigh in on the latest summary of the Smart Government Framework, an outline course of action to restructure the relationship between state and local governments to produce better results.

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Cuts to higher ed: the master plan turncoats
 150 150 John Guenther
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Some of the same state legislators who benefited from the higher education system now won’t act to keep it whole.

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Raising the bar and setting expectations for California higher education
 150 150 Stephen Reed
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Concern increases daily among soon-to-be high school graduates, their parents, the more than 670,000 current University of California and California State University students, and millions of Californians, as they watch…

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