(NAME-MCE) California Educational Opportunity Report

[Anselmo Villanueva]

*California Educational Opportunity Report

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This report represents the fourth annual California Educational Opportunity
Report produced by UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access
(IDEA) in partnership with UC ACCORD. As in past reports, we examine the
quality and distribution of educational opportunities across California’s
public schools. A broader set of analyses of educational conditions and
outcomes, including reports on each California legislative district and
reports on each public high school and middle school in the state, can be
found online at www.edopp.org.

The report includes findings from interviews with a respresentative sample
of 87 California school principals.  Among the findings:

   - The recession has created acute new social needs for students attending
   a broad cross section of California public schools;
   - California’s weak educational and fiscal infrastructure has limited the
   ability of schools to respond to these new needs, despite extraordinary
   efforts of local educators;
   - Conditions supporting teaching and learning have eroded;
   - Many school programs and services previously viewed as essential (such
   as summer school) have been eliminated or cut back;
   - Budget cuts have undermined efforts of schools to sustain improvement
   and reform;

Download report at:

http://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/educational-opportunity-report/files-and-documents/Ed%20Op%20in%20Hard%20Times.pdf