California Department of Education

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...

In this project, researchers will describe and evaluate the impact of the revised California Early Assessment Program (EAP) that signals 11th grade students about their readiness to take postsecondary for-credit courses (based on their 11th grade state test scores in English and math) and provides advice on improving their readiness during 12th grade. In a previously funded IES study, researchers found that the Early Assessment Program had modest effects of college readiness for students att...

The Research and Development Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) will examine the implementation of college- and career-ready standards in 5 states, assess how they are related to student outcomes in 50 states, and test an intervention that supports standards-aligned instruction in 5 states. C-SAIL's launch occurs at a time when states and districts across the country are engaged in a variety of initiatives aimed at implementing college- and career-ready standa...

The California Department of Education (CDE) is applying for a $6 million foundational grant to develop and implement the CALTIDES. The CDE proposes to develop and implement CALTIDES by entering into a contract with a systems integration vendor and to use grant funding to support these one-time contract costs.

California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS)