Equitable Access and Opportunity Resources

February 12, 2025 | California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), enacted in 2013, created a simpler and more equitable K-12 education finance system. Research indicates it has helped to improve student outcomes and points to challenges in its fiscal design and opportunities to strengthen it.

February 11, 2025 | California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), enacted in 2013, created a simpler and more equitable K-12 education finance system. Research indicates it has helped to improve student outcomes and points to challenges in its fiscal design and opportunities to strengthen it.

February 4, 2025 | Equitable funding is vital to meet the needs of all students including English learners and low-income students, enabling targeted supports like bilingual education and social services. Understanding funding approaches and the resources needed to ensure meaningful learning opportunities is key to assessing whether states provide adequate support for student success.

January 28, 2025 | Equitable funding is vital to meet the needs of all students including English learners and low-income students, enabling targeted supports like bilingual education and social services. Understanding funding approaches and the resources needed to ensure meaningful learning opportunities is key to assessing whether states provide adequate support for student success.

December 4, 2024 | About 40% of California's K-12 students speak a language other than English at home. Half of them receive English learner (EL) services for 5–7 years, but some students retain EL status longer. California recently reconfigured its dashboard to better understand what additional supports these students will need to reach their educational potential.

December 4, 2024 | As California works to better serve all students it has recently added a new long-term English learner (LTEL) category to its accountability dashboard. New research on LTEL characteristics, locations, and academic performances will be key to helping LTELs reach English proficiency.

September 25, 2024 | New Mexico supports community schools statewide, including in Roswell, where a middle and high school have created a nourishing school climate and culture by providing culturally responsive and restorative spaces, opportunities for student voice and engagement, and a social safety net to address out-of-school learning barriers.

September 25, 2024 | This rural New Mexico district implemented the community schools strategy in 2021, emphasizing project-based learning, family and community engagement, and physical and mental wellness. Since then, attendance at school events has dramatically increased, chronic absenteeism has decreased, and the graduation rate has increased.

September 25, 2024 | Since adopting a community school strategy in 2018, Los Padillas Elementary School has seen improvements in school climate, chronic absenteeism, attendance, academic performance, teacher retention, and enrollment. Their approach centers on culturally relevant and community-connected learning.