Public Policy Institute of California

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of four different reclassification policies in two different districts on a variety of academic outcomes. English Learners (ELs) are an academically vulnerable population to whom schools provide language support until they reach a certain level of mastery in spoken and written English. Once ELs reach their state or district's level of mastery, they are then reclassified, and no longer receive English language support services. A key policy ...

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...