Each: A Vision For Changing Education

EachA New Way of Approaching

Education Reform

1/27/2010

Who we are…

150+ donor-member volunteers in the Bay Area.

A blend of private, non-profit, and public sectors.

Non-partisan, solution-oriented.

We build teams that work.

Our Issue areas:

Education, Environment, Economic Opportunity

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How We Can Help

Frame issues clearly

Suggest/evaluate policy solutions

Serve as a sounding board

Goals for Today

Review the “EACH” platform

Exchange ideas

Identify next steps

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Context: California is Big

~7 million students

~400,000 educators

~10,000 schools

~1,000 districts4

Years

Ahead

Years

Behind

National Average

Massachusetts

California kids

are a year behind

California is Behind

All

Students

2007 NAEP

average of grades 4&8

blended math, language

3

3

2

2

1

1

5

Years

Ahead

Years

Behind

Every Segment Lags

All

Students

In

Poverty Black Latino

Not in

Poverty Asian White

3

3

2

2

1

1

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What should be the Unit of Change?

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EachEach Student – Each Teacher

Each School – Each Community8

EachStudent

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Each Student

Goal: Advance each student’s learning steadily regardless of starting place or learning needs. Measure success in terms of each student’s progress toward the end goals of college and career success

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Each Student

Make college and career success the core metric for K-12 success (recommendation 1.1a)

Fund districts based on students, weighted by each student’s needs (1.2b)

Strategically increase total education investment per student to national norms, fostering change in the process. (1.2a)

Policy Overview

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Each

CA

NJNY

5,000

7,500

10,000

12,500

15,000

17,500

30,000 35,000 40,000 45,000 50,000 55,000 60,000 65,000 70,000 75,000

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K-1

2 e

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Average Teacher Salary

California Average Spending per K-12 Student Dramatically Lags Other States (especially high-wage states)

Source: NEA, 2008-09 tables C-11 and H-16

(Revised data as of 1/27/2010)

Indifference

curve

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Bubble size: enrollment

Each Student

0.0

20.0

40.0

60.0

80.0

100.0

120.0

140.0

Total Staff Teachers

Staff per 1,000 Students in

CA compared to Rest of USA

California

Rest of USA

+43%

+36%

0%

1%

2%

3%

4%

5%

6%

1970 2005

Percent of State Personal Income Invested in K-12

California’s

financial

commitment

to education

has declined.

2009-10

(est)

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Each Student

Invest in state education data infrastructure capable of supporting each student, teacher, and school. California lags far behind in this essential area. (1.3a)

Invest in data dashboards for students, parents, teachers, school leaders, and community stakeholders. (1.3b)

Spur development of better student assessment technology, especially adaptive testing. (1.3c)

Support flexible approaches to learning, especially computer-based and online (1.4a and 1.4b)

Policy Overview

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EachTeacher

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Each Teacher

Goal: Prepare, recruit, support and retain each highly effective educator.

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Each Teacher

Attract thousands of great new people to compete for teaching jobs with a statewide campaign. Unblock alternative teacher prep pathways with tough, evidence-based accountability for effectiveness (2.1a and 2.1b)

Professionalize teacher compensation and evaluation. Require districts to re-negotiate their pay structures, eliminating incentives for things that make no difference for student learning (e.g. precise number of years worked, most masters degrees.) (2.2b)

Create a competitive state fund that supports creation of differentiated teacher pay programs. (2.2a)

Policy Overview

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EachSchool

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Each School

Goal: Make each school an effective launching pad for each student’s future.

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Each School Policy Overview

Cut Red Tape. Give successful schools and districts charter-like flexibility and freedom from program mandates. (3.1a)

Cut ALL the tape. Set an orderly process to sunset the Ed Code, enabling (indeed, requiring) a fresh look. (3.1b)

Invest in programs to build school leadership capacity. (3.2)

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EachCommunity

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Each Community

Goals: Rebuild and extend the connection between schools and the communities they serve. Equitably empower each community to provide material support to its local schools.

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Each Community Policy Overview

Empower all

communities to

raise funds locally for

schools. (4.1a)

Equalize funding power

with state matching

funds for lower-wealth

communities. (4.1b)

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Each Community

“Lean into” success: create a state “educational momentum fund” to direct incremental resources to districts and schools that improve student achievement, similar to “Race to the Top” but ongoing. (4.2)

Policy Overview

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Each Community

Invest in a toolset for districts to communicate with parents and community. (4.3a)

Foster coordination of community services, building on examples like Harlem Children’s Zone. (4.3b)

Do more of what works, less of what does not, and know the difference. (4.3c)

Policy Overview

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Each School – Each Community26

EachNext Steps

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