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June 16, 2008 - Most students who enter California Community Colleges (CCC) lack sufficient reading, writing, and mathematics skills to undertake college–level work. Thus, one of the CCC system’s core missions is to provide precollegiate “basic skills” instruction to these students. In this report, we find that a large percentage of students do not overcome their basic skills deficiencies during their time at CCC. We identify a number of state policies that we believe stand in the way of student success, and recommend several structural and systemwide changes designed to help increase preparedness and achievement among community college students.
June 13, 2008 - LAO Compromise: California Postsecondary Education Commission. Agenda page 357. Item 6420-001-0001.
June 12, 2008 - LAO Compromise: Agenda Page 362—Item 6440-001-0001—University of California Provisional Language Regarding Future Appropriations
June 12, 2008 - LAO Compromise: Agenda Page 366—Item 6610-001-0001—California State University Provisional Language Regarding Future Appropriations
June 10, 2008 - California currently operates two systems designed to turn around low–performing schools—one for state purposes and one for federal purposes. The two systems are uncoordinated and often duplicative, in addition to being poorly structured. We recommend replacing the two systems with an integrated system that serves both state and federal purposes. Under the new system, the state would support district reform efforts. Districts would receive different levels of support depending on the severity of their underlying performance problem and be given short–term funding linked to specific short–term district reform activities. By virtue of being integrated and district–centered, the new system would cost substantially less than the existing system and could be supported entirely with federal funding.
May 21, 2008 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 On Education Finance
May 21, 2008 - Presented to Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Education
May 13, 2008 - Presented to Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education
May 12, 2008 - Presented to the California Association of School Business Officials.
April 29, 2008 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
April 3, 2008 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
March 25, 2008 - Presented to: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education
March 11, 2008 - Presented to Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance
February 26, 2008 - Presented With the Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) broadcast, "The LAO Analysis of the Governor's Budget, 2008-09." The panel discussion itself can be viewed at http://www.lao.ca.gov/2008/webcasts/ficmat/ficmat_022508.asx