The Local Control Funding Formula replaces California’s nearly half-century-old, state-controlled school finance system with one that promises more local control as well as greater transparency and fairness. Under the old system, school districts received approximately […]

Governor Brown has once again introduced a budget that includes significant increases for California’s public colleges and universities, proposing $1.1 billion over last year’s budget.  The Governor, however, is quite clear that new monies will […]

The Campaign for College Opportunity recently released a report, the second in a new series of research reports The State of Blacks in Higher Education: The Persistent Opportunity Gap, detailing the lack of significant progress in […]

This fall we were honored to have College Board, a California GEAR UP strategic partner, provide demonstration lessons at all of our Principal and Leadership Team events that took place across the state. These events focus on the […]

UC president Janet Napolitano indicated she would allocate $5 million in university funds to help the system’s estimated 900 students who entered the country illegally. The issue of how to treat those who don’t have proper immigration papers […]

Mark Odsather moved into the superintendency of the GEAR UP school in Pleasant View Elementary School District in California’s San Joaquin Valley four years ago with a mission to turn around one of the state’s […]

Mark Odsather moved into the superintendency of the GEAR UP school in Pleasant View Elementary School District in California’s San Joaquin Valley four years ago with a mission to turn around one of the state’s […]