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This policy analysis tackles the issue of the funding formulas for public institutions with a focus on broad access two year institutions. Performance based funding, funding inequality, and student performance are discussed.

This article provides guidance for policy creation regarding virtual schools

The ECS State Education Policy Database is a unique resource-currently summarizing nearly 40,000 pieces of enacted legislation-searchable by state, by year, and by issue.

This is a site of policy analysises that deals with various topics in California.

Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers was co-authored by ten influential scholars assembled by the Economic Policy Institute. The policy analysis explores the claim that "American public schools generally do a poor job of systematically developing and evaluating teachers" and that the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers leads to detrimental results (Baker et al., 2010, p.1).

The California Standards Tests (CSTs) are exams used to determine student learning in specific courses at specific grades levels. The authors of this policy brief compared students' SAT and CSTs scores in terms of success at the University of CA. The authors propose allowing CSTs to be used as an alternative to the SAT for admissions into CA's public colleges.

This policy analysis focuses on the history and impact of financial aid policies with thoughts about future policies.

This was an awesome policy brief - The author discussed how the State of California could move to a Learning 2.0 systematic approach to teaching and learning. The policy framework proposed within the brief seeks to have a great start to address all of the challenges to be faced in adopting Internet-based technology. The brief stressed that there is no reason to adopt technology for the sake of technology but to have the state be visionary and practical in building a learning system for current century.

School choice programs such as charter schools, magnet schools and private school vouchers have been subjected to intense policy analysis and debate. The option of interdistrict open enrollment, mandated in over 40 states, has maintained minimal visibility among stakeholders and analysts yet this school choice policy has the potential to affect school district funding, district wide ethnic and socioeconomic configuration of students and parental decisions on their location of residence. In the article "The Determinants of Interdistrict Open Enrollment Flows: Evidence From Two States," Carlson, Lavery & Witte (2011) closely examine and analyze public school interdistrict open enrollment programs, the factors that impact open enrollment transfers and the societal effects of such programs in the states of Minnesota and Colorado.