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Articles by Julia E. Koppich
PreK-3 Alignment: Challenges and Opportunities in California
Year of publication: With the infusion of new funds, Governor Gavin Newsom has placed early childhood education high on California’s policy agenda. Yet the state still faces the complicated challenge of sustaining and building on the progress children make in preK. Research has shown that preK–3 alignment—coordinating preK–3 standards, curricula, instructional practices, assessments, and teacher professional development—can be an effective means to this end.
Principals’ Perceptions: Implementing The Local Control Funding Formula
Year of publication: In fall 2018, the Local Control Funding Formula Research Collaborative (LCFFRC) conducted surveys of stratified random samples of California superintendents and principals. Superintendent results were published in June 2018 in Superintendents Speak: Implementing the Local Control Funding Formula. This report, Principals’ Perceptions: Implementing the Local Control Funding Formula, is the companion account of principal survey results.
What the Supreme Court’s Janus decision really means for teachers
It was a blow to public sector unions as the Supreme Court decided that government workers who choose not to join unions may not have to help pay for collective bargaining. It was not, however, a death blow. Unions’ path may be rockier and they will need to learn to be creatively nimble. But they are not about to disappear. Let me be clear. I am not a Polyanna about the Court’s decision. I long have been troubled by what I see as the malign intent of the Janus v.
How Stakeholder Engagement Fuels Improvement Efforts In Three California School Districts
California’s Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was signed into law in 2013, and represents the most significant change in California education finance and governance in 40 years. It moves additional funds to districts with students in poverty, English language learners, and foster youth. The LCFF sends supplemental funds to districts based on unduplicated counts of these target student groups and concentration funds to districts with high proportions (over 55%) of these same students.
New funding law creates disparity among low-income schools
The state’s new education funding formula provides extra money for all low-income children, students learning English and foster youth, and contributes more dollars if they make up the bulk of students in a district. But if these “high-need” kids happen to be concentrated in a few schools within wealthier districts, they get less funding than they would receive in a poor district, a recent study revealed.
School districts appreciate local control, fiscal flexibility
In his column, “Brown’s big school plan gets 3rd rap” (Capitol & California, Dec. 17), Dan Walters takes aim at California’s new education finance system, the Local Control Funding Formula. He points to the results of three studies and asserts that, without tighter state regulation, districts are likely to subvert the intent of the LCFF. One of the studies he cites is ours. Unfortunately, Walters misrepresents our findings.
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