Upcoming Events
Data Quality Campaign Quarterly Issue Meeting – Data Governance
Changing Culture, Breaking Down Silos, and Deciding Who is in Control.
The amount of and demand for high quality, accessible education data
is increasing. Also, the type of information and the roles and responsibilities
of data managers are changing as states shift from collecting and reporting
aggregate data to student-level longitudinal information. These changes
underscore the importance of developing a data governance strategy- a
consistent network of data infrastructure and business processes that
address issues around ownership, access, and protection of the data.
Without established governance guidelines, data silos persist, turf issues
remain, and data-based decision-making is inconsistent. Although data
governance involves creating a unified Information Technology plan, coordinating
the people, processes, and technology is equally important. Please join
us to hear from K-12 and higher education leaders who are working to
develop a data governance program that unifies the people, processes,
and technology to institutionalize and facilitate student-level data-based
decision-making.
This meeting will be held in Washington, DC at One Dupont Circle, NW
on July 29th from 2-4 pm (EDT). In order to attend in person, please
complete the online
registration form under Upcoming Events on the homepage of the campaign’s
Web site, by Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008.
Advance registration is required and seating is limited, so please sign
up early. For those unable to attend the meeting in person, a live broadcast
of this session will be available online and a video of this session
and the policy brief will be available at the campaign's Web site after
August 27, 2008. Advance registration to view the webcast is encouraged
but not required at the campaign's Web site.
Office of the Secretary of Education hosts “A Community Dialogue
on Education Reform”
*FOURTH AND FINAL MEETING*
Secretary of Education David Long is hosting an open discussion forum
to receive feedback on the release of the Governor’s Committee
on Education Excellence (GCEE) report.
Please join Secretary Long and Chairman Ted Mitchell of the Governor’s
Committee on Education Excellence in a dialogue aimed at answering questions
about and providing further information on the Committee’s report.
Date:
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Time:
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Location:
Santa Clara County Office of Education
1290 Ridder Park Drive
San Jose, CA 95131-2304
(408) 453-6500
This will be the last in a series of forums held throughout the state.
The Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence report was released
on March 14, 2008. To read the report and for more information on the
Committee, please visit: www.everychildprepared.org.
Recent Events
Office
of the Secretary of Education hosts “A Community Dialogue on Education
Reform”
*THIRD MEETING*
Secretary of Education David Long is hosting an open discussion forum
to receive feedback on the release of the Governor’s Committee
on Education Excellence (GCEE) report.
Please join Secretary Long, Chairman Ted Mitchell of the Governor’s Committee
on Education Excellence, and the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools
Dave Gordon in a dialogue aimed at answering questions about and providing
further information on the Committee’s report.
Date
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Time
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location
Sacramento City College Auditorium
3835 Freeport Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95822
916-558-2304
Parking - $1 in multi-story structure and visitor/student lots
The Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence report was released
on March 14, 2008. To read the report and for more information on the
Committee, please visit www.everychildprepared.org.
LEARNING
MATTERS - CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS: AMERICA'S FUTURE. New 1-Hour Special
Now Airing: California Schools
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is scrambling to avoid $4.8
billion in potential cuts to public school funding. His controversial
plans—more borrowing, an expanded lottery, and a possible tax hike—hinge
on lawmakers' approval. It's a sharp comedown from 2007, when the Governor
announced his intention to make 2008 "the year of education in California."
Unfortunately, it's not the first time California's public schools have
been on the brink. California Schools: America’s Future traces
the roots of the current crisis, providing viewers with the context to
inform their positions today.
This new program updates our 2004 documentary, First to Worst, about
the history of California public schools. Four years later, is it possible
that the largest school system in the country—educating one of
every eight schoolchildren —is worse off than ever?
To view the airdates in California please visit:
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/calischools/index.html#airdates
The airdates in Sacramento, CA is listed below.
Sacramento, CA - KVIE
• Friday, June 20 @ 9pm
• Monday, June 23 @ 3:30am
• Monday, June 23 @ 2pm
Office
of the Secretary of Education hosts “A Community Dialogue on Education
Reform”
**SECOND MEETING**
Secretary of Education David Long is hosting an open discussion forum
to receive feedback on the release of the Governor’s Committee
on Education Excellence (GCEE) report.
Please join Secretary Long and Ted Mitchell, Chairman of the Governor’s
Committee on Education Excellence, in a dialogue aimed at answering questions
about and providing further information on the Committee’s report.
Date:
Monday, June 16, 2008
Time:
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Location:
University of San Diego’s Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice. San
Diego, CA
More information to follow
The Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence report was released
on March 14, 2008. To read the report and for more information on the
Committee, please visit www.everychildprepared.org.
Office of the Secretary of Education hosts “A Community
Dialogue on Education Reform”
Secretary of Education David Long is hosting an open discussion
forum to receive feedback on the release of the Governor’s
Committee on Education Excellence (GCEE) report.
Please join Secretary Long and Ted Mitchell, Chairman of
the Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence, in
a dialogue aimed at answering questions about and providing
further information on the Committee’s report.
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: The Grand Theatre at Los Angeles
Trade Tech College
400 West Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 763-7047
The Governor’s Committee on Education Excellence report
was released on March 14, 2008. To read the report and for
more information on the Committee, please visit www.everychildprepared.org.
MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION
AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE RELEASES NEW REPORT Andy
Calkins to Discuss State and
District Strategies to Turn Around Low-Performing Schools
Please feel invited to a discussion about state and district strategies to
turnaround low-performing schools by Andy Calkins, Senior Vice President of
Mass Insight Education & Research Institute.
Event co-hosted by the California Student Success Project (CSSP), Policy Analysis
for California Education (PACE) and UC Davis Center for Applied Policy in Education
(CAP-Ed).
Speaker:
Andy Calkins, Senior Vice President of Mass Insight Education & Research
Institute.
When:
Monday, April 21, 2008
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Where:
1130 K Street (Old Weinstock's Building)
Sacramento, CA 95814
Please RSVP by replying via email to Richard Seder at rich@edstrategies.net
or to 916-838-1810 if you plan to attend so we can estimate the number of lunches
needed.
Copies of the full report, "The Turnaround Challenge", can be downloaded
from the Mass Insight Website at: http://www.massinsight.org/resourcefiles/TheTurnaroundChallenge_2007.pdf.
Mass Insight Powerpoint Presentation
TURNING AROUND
LOW-PERFORMING SCHOOLS
April 11, 2008
Bruce Fuller - U.C. Berkeley and PACE
Bruce Fuller is a Co-director of PACE and a Professor of Education and Public
Policy at U.C. Berkeley. The number of California schools that are subject
to sanctions under state and federal accountability policies is steadily growing
as is the number of interventions aimed at improving their performance. In
this seminar Fuller will convene a panel to discuss current strategies in California
for improving the performance of low-performing schools, and their prospects
for success.
Unless otherwise noted, all PACE seminars are held at 1130 K Street
(Old Weinstock's Building) from 11:30-1:30 P.M. Lunch will be served. Please
RSVP to SADIEP@SIA-US.COM or Phone 916.669.5418
CSSP BRINGS TOGETHER TOP EDUCATION POLICY GROUPS
FOR 4/4 ROUNDTABLE Change Proposals on Finance, Teachers/Principals and
English Learners to be Analyzed
Who:
Event co-hosted by the California Student Success Project (CSSP), Policy
Analysis for California Education (PACE), UC Davis Center for Applied Policy
in Education (CAP-Ed) and Warren Institute at the University of California
Berkeley Law School.
Featured Speakers:
- Patricia Gandara, Civil Rights Project
- Scott Hill, Office of the Secretary of Education
- Julia E. Koppich, Julia E. Koppich & Associates;
Goodwin Liu, Warren Institute at UC Berkeley
- David Plank, Policy Analysis for California
Education (PACE)
- Rick Simpson, Office of the Speaker of
the California State Assembly.
- Moderator: Christopher T. Cross, California
Student Success Project
What:
A roundtable discussion about education change proposals in finance,
teacher and principal policies, information systems, and issues related
to English learners and how they relate to one another in a systemic
way.
When:
Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch will
be provided.
Where:
Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building, Room 500
914 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA 95814
Information discussed at the event is listed below. Please click on the name
to view the report.
PACE Policy Brief. March 2008. “Reshaping Teacher
Policies to Improve Student Achievement.” Download
PDF
Resource
Needs for English Learners: Getting Down to Policy Recommendations. Download
PDF
University of California, Berkley Law School. “Reforming
California School Finance.” Download PDF
PACE Policy
Brief. February 2008. “Building an Information System to
Support Continuous Improvement in California Public Schools.” Download
PDF
BAY AREA COUNCIL EDUCATION
DATA SYSTEM MEETING & HEARING REPORT
Notes from the Bay Area Council and Commonwealth Club Meeting on Education
Data Systems
February 12, 2008
Speakers:
- Andy Ball, President and CEO, Webcor Builders and Chair,
Bay Area Council Education Committee
- Jim Wunderman, President and CEO, Bay Area Council
- Jay Pfeiffer, Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Accountability,
Research, and Measurement of the Florida Department of Education
- Laura Schwalm, Superintendent of Garden Grove Unified
School District
- Kathy Baron, Moderator, Education Reporter for The California
Report on KQED Public Radio, on leave and Journalism and Policy Fellow at
Berkeley Law School's Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Diversity
For more information, please click here.
The day after the Bay Area Council and Commonwealth Club meeting, there was
a hearing on data in Sacramento. Notes on the hearing follow.
ASSEMBLY EDUCATION COMMITTEE INFORMATIONAL
HEARING ON STATE DATA SYSTEMS
Capitol Hill, 4th Floor, Sacramento, CA
February 13, 2008, 1:30pm
Hearing Participants:
- Jay Pfeiffer, Deputy Commissioner, Division
of Accountability, Research and Measurement, Florida Department of Education.
To see his PowerPoint click
here
- Dr. Lauress Wise, Principal
Scientist, Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) To see his PowerPoint
click here. He placed his wish
list for the
data system on slide 6.
- Keric Ashley, Director, Data Management Division,
California Department of Education. To view Keric’s two presentation
documents click here and click here
- Rick Miller, Deputy Superintendent,
Policy Development & External
Affairs, California Department of Education
- Stephanie Fricano,
Legislative Analyst's Office. See the LAO report on Data Access Policy
To view the February 13th hearing in its entirety, please click
here.
THE BAY AREA COUNCIL AND THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB
OF SAN FRANCISCO HOST:
In the Super Bowl of Education Data Systems, Florida
Clinched the Number One Spot. Florida’s Innovative Coach Has Agreed
to Share His Winning Formula with California which wasn’t in the
Playoffs.
Jay Pfeiffer, the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Accountability, Research,
and Measurement of the Florida Department of Education will describe the nation’s
top state level education data system and how it got that way.
Moderator: Kathy
Baron, Education Reporter for The California Report on KQED Public Radio,
on leave and Journalism and Policy Fellow at Berkeley Law School's
Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Diversity
When:
February 12, 2008. 9:00 – 11:30AM
Coffee, snacks, and networking - 9:00 – 9:30
Meeting - 9:30 – 11:30
Where:
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco
595 Market Street, Second Floor, San Francisco
Click here to hear the audio
from the event
EVENT WITH FORMER WEST VIRGINA GOVERNOR AND
PRESIDENT OF THE ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION BOB WISE:
Measuring What Matters: Creating a longitudinal information system to improve
system student achievement.
Who
Event co-hosted by the California Student Success Project (CSSP), the Policy
Analysis for California Education (PACE), the Bay Area Council, USC Rossier
School of Education, USC School of Policy, Planning and Development, Public
Advocates, Springboard Schools and the Information Alliance for Education.
Featured Speaker: Bob Wise, former West Virginia Governor and President
of the Alliance for Excellent Education.
Additional Speakers:
Senator Joe Simitian – Chair of the Senate Committee on California’s
Master Plan for Education
Senator Darrell Steinberg– Chair of the Senate Select Committee on
Dropouts
What
Discussion of results from the newest analysis of the states against the
benchmarks established by National Data Quality Campaign.
When
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
Where
CSAC, California State Association of Counties
1020 11th Street, 2nd floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Why
CSSP believes that improving educational outcomes for California students
by ensuring that all students are well prepared for post-secondary education
and the world of work is the best thing we can do for our children and our
state. There’s a lot we cannot afford in this budget deficit year.
But even with these challenges, we must put in place a cost effective and
efficient student information system that supports teaching and learning.
We can also create a strategic framework which will address our antiquated
school finance system, instructional and human resource systems.
Governor Bob Wise’s Power Point Presentation
Coverage from the Event
EDSOURCE HOSTS:
Getting From Facts to Policy: A California Education Policy Convening
Forum Provides a Platform for Key Stakeholders to Discuss Current and Future California Education Policy
ATTENDEES: Over 350 individuals are registered, representing over a hundred organizations or affiliations: K-12 superintendents, California Business Roundtable and CA Chamber of Commerce, California Teachers Association, school board and parent leaders, research and policy organizations, state legislators and other government officials, and more. They are all leaders in their field, and the organizations and affiliations they represent are very broad in their missions and perspectives.
View Invitation
Submitted Policy Briefs
We received 50 different six-page policy briefs from about 45 different groups. These briefs raise issues that the individuals submitting them think are most important for improving student academic outcomes in California.
All policy briefs and recommendations were research and evidence based, drawing from the Getting Down to Facts portfolio of studies released last spring as well as from other good sources of data and evidence available.
All Briefs have been incorporated into a spiral bound Convening Book which will be shared with all Convening attendees on the 19th. It will also be hand delivered the next week to all legislators, and mailed by EdSource that same week to an additional group of 50 or so state government leaders in various departments in the executive branch. And, all the Briefs will be posted after the convening.
View the list of policy briefs
PROGRAM
Most of these briefs will be presented in the twelve breakout sessions that will occur at the Convening in the morning, after a keynote presentation by Carl Guardino, CEO of Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Over lunch, Ted Mitchell, Chair of the Governor's Committee on Education Excellence, will share the status of their recommendations to the Governor and the major policy reforms they have been deliberating.
Following a brief presentation that synthesizes the 50 policy briefs submitted for the convening, a Plenary Panel discussion among state policy leaders will take place to get their reactions to and thoughts about the
recommendations being made. The education policy strands expected to get the most focus include school finance and governance reform, accountability, education data systems, and teacher and administrator capacity building.
Within a week after the Convening we will post web streaming of the plenary sessions of the Convening.
View Agenda
Convening Objectives
EdSource is an independent and impartial nonprofit organization, and is hosting this Convening to gather into one place on one day a significant number of research based policy recommendations, in order to "promote thoughtful decisions about California's public school system." There will be no attempt at this Convening to get attendees to reach consensus on the problems or the solutions.
The objectives for EdSource of this Convening include 1) getting the attention
of state policymakers this fall to ensure they are aware of how important the
next wave of education reforms are to California's students and the state's
many K-12 stakeholders; and 2) providing these state policymakers with a robust
resource—the Convening Book of your research based policy papers and recommendations—for
their consideration and use as they begin to deliberate and develop priorities
and legislation; and 3) providing a vehicle for the attendees to
come together in one day to share and hear education policy ideas and concerns
and to identify others they may want to work with in the coming months.
View the keynote address by Carl Guardino, President of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Transcript of Keynote Address
Synthesis of Policy Recommendations
Media Coverage from the Convening
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