Supporting Continuous Improvement in California&#039;s Education System

Supporting Continuous Improvement in California's Education System

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Title: Supporting Continuous Improvement in California's Education System
Abstract/Description: California’s new accountability system originated in the radical decentralization of power and authority from Sacramento to local schools and their communities brought about by the Legislature’s adoption of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013. Under California’s previous accountability policies and the federal “No Child Left Behind” law, the state set performance targets for schools and districts based almost entirely on students’ standardized test scores. Schools that fell short of their targets were subject to a variety of increasingly harsh sanctions, ranging from designation as a “failing” school to reconstitution or closure. California’s new accountability system is different from the previous system in nearly every important respect. The new system is grounded in the concept of reciprocal accountability: that is, every actor in the system—from the Capitol to the classroom—must be responsible for the aspects of educational quality and performance that it controls.
Author/creator: Darling-Hammond, Linda; Plank, David N.
Date: January 2015
Publisher: Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE); Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text; en Film/Audiovisual Recording
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical; en Brief/Memo
IRE Approach/Concept: Continuous Improvement; Policy Implementation
Featured case/project: CORE (California Office to Reform Education) Districts
URL: Publication Webpage (via PACE); Open Access Report PDF (via PACE Webpage); Publication Webpage (via SCOPE); Open Access Report PDF (via {SCOPE Webpage); Open Access Policy Brief Summary (via SCOPE Webpage); Open Access Recording: "Supporting Continuous Improvement in California’s Education System" (via YouTube); Open Access Recording: "Responses to Supporting Continuous Improvement in California’s Education System" (via YouTube)
Citation: Darling-Hammond, L., & Plank, D. N. (2015). Supporting Continuous Improvement in California’s Education System. Policy Analysis for California Education. https://edpolicyinca.org/publications/supporting-continuous-improvement-californias-education-system
Cited in: Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education; Critical Perspectives on Educational Innovation and Improvement Science