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Explore this comparative report on Colorado and Washington strategies for supporting highly mobile youth, highlighting policies, collaboration models, and recommendations to improve educational stability.

This WestEd Perspectives piece analyzes the ongoing decline in California public school enrollment and its impact on funding, highlighting revenue losses, rising costs, reduced federal support, and the need for better forecasting, spending decisions, and community engagement.

Watch this engaging panel discussion featuring Educator Preparation Program grantees who have successfully transitioned from one-time grants to sustainable funding streams. Discover practical strategies for securing alternative funding, reducing costs, and planning for long-term fiscal sustainability.

WestEd partnered with Sobrato Philanthropies to conduct a strategic and economic analysis of English Learner programs in the state of California and this document provides a high-level summary of the study’s activities, conclusions, and recommendations.

This brief provides practitioners with research-based recommendations from a recent strategic and economic analysis of English Learner programs in the state of California.

This brief explores the possible impacts of federal funding changes and provides strategic recommendations for state education leaders and their counterparts in other government agencies.

This brief defines systems change and describes the principles that guide systems-change work at WestEd, from collaborating to facilitate improvements within a particular system or across sectors for large-scale, cross-system change efforts.

This report shows the key role county offices of education (COEs) play in leading or coordinating an integrated system of care in collaboration with child-serving agencies to provide a holistic and accessible set of mental and behavioral services to students and families.

As state and federal pandemic relief wind down, California school districts must consider how to sustain programs beyond the duration of this one-time funding. This paper explores funding sustainability, investigates whether California school districts face a “fiscal cliff,” and offers insights into how leaders are approaching funding sustainability.

This brief provides an overview of California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and actionable improvement opportunities for the LCFF based on a decade of research.