Niu Gao

Students in foster care are one of the most vulnerable groups enrolled in California public schools. Using a mixed-method approach, this project team will study school mobility for foster youth students, examine the changes in foster youth outcomes since the pandemic, understand how districts support learning recovery for foster youth students (with a focus on maintaining educational stability), and identify promising district actions that support foster youth students' educational stability...

The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) in collaboration with the California Department of Education, the University of California-Berkely, and the University of California-San Diego will examine California's $4.6 billion pandemic recovery grant program for K-12 school districts known as the Expanded Learning Opportunity (ELO) grant program. The project team will examine the ELO for California's more than 1000 school districts from 2021-22 through 2024-25 and look at how the ELO gra...