Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
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Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
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WHAT WE DO
PACE is an independent, non-partisan research center led by faculty directors at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the University of California Davis, the University of California Los Angeles, and the University of California Berkeley. Founded in 1983, PACE bridges the gap between research, policy, and practice, working with scholars from California’s leading universities and with state and local decision makers to achieve improvement in performance and more equitable outcomes at all levels of California’s education system, from early childhood to postsecondary education and training.
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[Excerpted from PACE Website]
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TOPIC: CONTINUOUS SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT & SUPPORT
California and the nation are at the crossroads of a major shift in school accountability policy. At the state level, California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) and Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) process encourage the use of multiple measures of school performance used locally to support continuous improvement and strategic resource allocation. Similarly, the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) reinforces this local control, requiring more comprehensive assessment of school performance and a less prescriptive, local approach to school support.
Calls for “continuous improvement” in California’s K-12 education system are central to current discussions about school improvement in the state. Yet, definitions of continuous improvement vary, and knowledge of what continuous improvement looks like in practice is limited.
PACE research addresses the challenges of those working in this changing accountability landscape by providing descriptions of continuous improvement in diverse educational organizations and by identifying the supports and challenges necessary to take new improvement approaches to scale.
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[Excerpted from PACE Webpage "Topic: Continuous School Improvement & Support"]
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IRE Approach/Concept
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Continuous Improvement
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Citation
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Policy Analysis for California Education. (n.d.). https://edpolicyinca.org/
Supporting Continuous Improvement in California's Education System
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